How do you feel when a Bengali girl snatches the crown of Miss England 2019 from the stiff-upper-lip Britishers? Well, we all feel proud. Medical student Bhasha Mukherjee, born to Bengali parents settled in England, have won the coveted crown of Miss England 2019. Not
If you are acquainted with Kashmiri surnames, you must have often come across the surname Dar. Found among both Kashmiri Pundits and Muslims, they actually come from the Dhar community of Bengal. The Dhar kram originates from the honorific given to a village head, strongman
Rabindranath Tagore has always been supreme in the thoughts portrayed in his short stories. Even a century back when he wrote about the friendship of a Kabuliwala who had come from Afghanistan to Kolkata and a little girl Minnie, probably he knew such friendships will
One difficult song after another… Ankita mesmerized the audience and the judges with her mellifluous voice and her rare talent in copying even the superb style of singing of Kishore Kumar. She not just sang on stage, she even acted. Be it the difficult Padosan
The Central Government gave a final nod to privatize the iconic pharma company Bengal Chemicals that was started by world renowned scientist Prafulla Chandra Roy almost a century ago. Ray had finished his studies abroad and always wished to start something on his own soil
Off and on railway stations of India are renamed these days. Recently, a news had made to the headlines about Burdwan station being renamed after freedom fighter Batukeshwar Dutt. But who was Batuk Dutt? Born in a remote village of Burdwan, he joined Chandrashekhar Azad
Though Bengalis have eulogized Rabindranath Tagore, his only surviving child Rathindranath Tagore who was a phenomenal litterateur, artist, craftsman, translator and scientist remained an unsung hero always. Not just unsung, rather the tragic hero, when he was literally hounded out of his father’s beloved Santiniketan,
Ishrat was married for 15 years and became the mother of four, till one fine day her husband who lived in Dubai for work, suddenly decided to just utter those three words Talaq Talaq Talaq over phone from Dubai. Ishrat’s world broke down. She could
The patients are being treated in the state run Raghunathpur Super-speciality Hospital. This is a nodal hospital where a lot of referral cases come from different parts of Purulia. Though the patients get meals from the hospital itself, their relatives, many of who have to
If Kolkata already had a hotline with its mayor Firhad Hakim and could lodge any complaints directly with him, now the people of the districts of Bengal also stand a chance to share their grievances directly with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Named as Didi ke