Yet another feather in the cap of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her continuous developmental work --- West Bengal has received the Best State Award 2018 from the highly recognized Scotch Foundation, who conduct minute analysis of performance of various states. Each year, this organization
If you talk about the obsession of the Bengali bhodrolok, Ilish Mach or Hilsa simply tops the list. It plays an indispensable role in our daily life. During monsoons, any Bengali kitchen seems incomplete without the presence of the ‘queen of fish.’ The state government
Sanchaiyta Bhattacharjee Alam, popularly known as Chef Sunshine has been able to bring sunshine in the otherwise morbid lives of inmates of Pavlov Mental Hospital. Recently, she conducted a baking workshop with a bunch of women residents of the hospital on behalf of Anjali, a
Jaynagar does not just come in the headlines for political fights. It also happens to have sent more than 350 girls of the marginalized communities, many of whom participated in the Magic Bus Football Tournament. When the rest of India is making a poor show
Amina was a 16-year-old young student of Dhaka when she was picked up from her house by Pakistani troops. What went on with her after that, would beat any horror film. The repeated gangrapes and the horrific torture that Pakistan played on lakhs of women
SAHELI MITRA & SREEMOYEE BHATTACHARYA She is best known as someone who crossed the English Channel, and then turned a national and international swimmer, at a time when most in India could not even think of taking up swimming as a sport. Today, she looks a
Sukumar Mahato has had to leave his studies because of poverty. His parents were also illiterate. They never could afford two square meals for their children. Let alone their education. Sukumar thus had to quit his studies at the primary level, even before Class II.
It was December 30, 1943, when Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, one of the greatest Indian freedom fighters first hoisted the tri-colour Indian fag on Port Blair’s cellular jail in Andamans, declaring it a free territory from the hands of the British rule. This was way
If we look around carefully, there still exist many who reside far away from the arena of limelight and recognition and yet devote their entire life for the welfare and development of mankind and the greater good of the society without an iota of any
Swarnabha Dey is an IT professional based in Kolkata who with the help of friends and others have set up the first crowd-funded school of Bengal. He gives an exclusive interview to GetBengal on how such crowd funded schools can help the next generation of