Just two years before the revolt of 1857, there was another revolt that rose from the tribal belts of Bengal where tribes fought with bows and arrows against the British and their agents, the Zamindars. Sadly, this great Santhal Revolt, fought in the jungles of
His sister Marufa died without treatment from a simple chest infection when she was just 17 years old. That made taxi driver Saidul Laskar promise to himself that he would not let anyone die at least in his village in Baruipur at least without treatment.
Eastern Railway ran a special train from Budge Budge to Sealdah, yesterday, 19 to mark the 122nd return day of Swami Vivekananda from Chicago, where he had delivered the historic lecture. On his way back to Kolkata from the US city in 1897, Vivekananda had
After the theft of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel medal, that is yet to be traced, authorities are not taking any chance with any of the original artefacts that Tagore ever used or gifted or even received as a gift. One such artefact that lies locked up
Dear Sabyasachi, You have indeed raised a storm over morning cuppas across India, especially in Bengali households over your comment: It is a shame for those who do not know how to wear a saree. Frankly, many Bengali women of the present generation do not know
Samanjit Sengupta is Additional District Magistrate of Murshidabad The meandering streams of a migrating Ganges, often leaves innumerable ox-bow lakes and waterbodies along its course, in the fertile land of Murshidabad. The mighty river has innumerable distributaries and tributaries that have been home to diverse aquatic
She worked as a domestic help and sold vegetables under the Park Circus foot bridge to earn enough money to build a hospital for the poor. Subhasini Mistry is undoubtedly an unsung matriarch who is now all of 75 years. But all these years she
Of the many places around Kolkata often visited as a picnic spot, Uluberia merits a special mention. Come winter and the riverside at Fuleshwar becomes abuzz and vibrant with picnic goers and revelers. Bounded by river Bhagirathi in the east, separating it from Kolkata and
The Sunderbans along with parts of south and north 24 Parganas have always had the problem of safe drinking water. In recent years, the quality of water has worsened due to arsenic poisoning of the ground water tube wells, rendering them unsafe for drinking. Not
He is a boy from Ballygunge, who studied at Don Bosco school Park Circus, but spent his summers and monsoons watching frogs! Rather tadpoles, metamorphosing into adult frogs at his grandmother’s place in Assam. This passion for frogs and their life-cycles did not leave him