Hon’ble Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday shared on Twitter that the West Bengal Government’s welfare scheme Lakshmir Bhandar has received the prestigious Skoch Award in the Women and Child Development category. Instituted in 2021, the scheme provides financial assistance to the women of deserving
The northern winds have started blowing, signalling the coming of long-awaited winters to the City of Joy. The festival of lights is round the corner. The festive fragrance rocks on. People are busy decorating their homes with lights. The verandas and windows have been decorated
Firecrackers are symbolic of celebration, of extravagance, and good luck and remain an integral part of Kali Puja and Diwali and this year, the entire country is gearing up to celebrate the festivals with gusto. Last two years had a blanket ban on all celebrations
It’s puja time in Kolkata and it is also a time when trees fall victim to the thoughtless and heartless annihilation of puja organisers, advertisement and hoarding companies who are out there to advertise their products to puja crowds at large. Huge flex and billboards
It is that time of year, when the blue heavens are decorated with colourful, geometric blobs, and the air is rife with ecstatic screams of "Bho-katta!" Crowds form on the roofs of houses, and the children, nay, warriors, wage the ancient battle to be the
Wildlife enthusiasts from across the globe dream of catching just a glimpse of the majestic predator of the world's largest mangrove forest. But for the people living with the swamp tigers of the Sundarbans, such an encounter converts to a death sentence for them. Even
Pather Panchali will remain a timeless classic, not just because of Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay’s soulful display of minute emotions of a family, set in rural Bengal, but for the adaptation of Apu Trilogy on screen by none other than Satyajit Ray. As Akira Kurosawa once mentioned,
Mayer deowa mota kapor mathaye tuley ne re bhai/ Deen dukhini Ma je toder taar beshi aar saddhyo nai….(Rajanikata Sen) (Brothers, please accept with gratitude the coarse cloth offered by your mother because your poor despondent mother cannot afford anything better) ‘Mota Kapor’ here is synonymous with
The Lion seems to have left in recent times being the King of the Jungle and instead stepped on to becoming the controversial king of social media. At least the recent controversy on the National Emblem and the face of the lions depicted raise a
‘Lakshmir Bhandarer Phool’ (Flowers from Lakshmi’s storeroom) reads a colourful signboard above a tiny shop tucked amid rows of myriad shops in the bustling G.C Road in Patulia, School Para, Khardah. The florist shop looks gorgeous with multi-coloured seasonal flowers heaped neatly into stacks and