Near Shyambati Market in Santiniketan, stands a quaint boutique store and also a vibrant café which serves quintessential Bengali dishes. Tanzil and Café Pyala happens to be the new hotspot of Santiniketan. It all started around Poush Mela 2015 when two friends Sanghamitra Ghosh, a
If you have ever been to Bakkhali and Henry’s Island, you would know why this whole tract of virgin territory was once called the Paradise of Bay of Bengal. But now it seems a racket of land sharks are operating in this area, mercilessly cutting
Indian physicist and physiologist Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose have hardly ever got his due recognition. May be, because he was born in British India, his scientific achievements that could have fetched any European a Nobel Prize, was played down. However, this stalwart who wanted science
“Apart from worshipping the Formless, no community may worship any idol depicting god, man, or animals; neither may anyone arrange sacrificial fires or rituals in Santiniketan. No insult to any religion or religious deity will be allowed here. The sermons given here will be such
When 25-year-old Arun Kumar Rai boarded a train on Howrah this week to return to his village in Vaishali, Bihar, little did he realise he would lose his way and fail to reach home. Rai worked for a power project in Patna, but had come
The ever- increasing air pollution has taken a toll on the people and environment at large. West Bengal and Kolkata is no exception. Recently Kolkata even turned out to be the most polluted city of India, over-taking notorious Delhi in pollution map. To help patients
If Darjeeling Hills is famous for tea, Directorate of Cinchona Plantation, Mungpoo, has made it famous for coffee and exotic orchid cultivation. Samuel Rai, director of Cinchona Plantation had been proactive in the mission to introduce coffee plantation in the Hills almost a year ago.
Instead of shunning HIV patients, and confining them to their own homes, Café Positive in Kolkata is one place where HIV is celebrated and all misconceptions about the same is put to rest. Yes, this is the food joint where customers are served by HIV
Babbar Ali of Murshidabad is the World’s Youngest Headmaster Babbar was just 16, when he fought against all odds including pangs of poverty to educate children in his neighborhood. A student of Cossimbazar Raj Govinda Sundari Vidyapeeth, Murshidabad, Babbar from the age of 16, started an
