Let Me Take You Down ’Cause I’m Going to Strawberry Fields… Whenever the melodious strain of John Lennon’s cult song, Strawberry Fields Forever permeates through the air, images of a field of strawberries comes to mind. Strawberry Fields Forever is one of the most identifiable Beatles classics.
Colonial history is tucked away in every nook and corner of Chandernagar. While some places are forgotten, some are still in use. Bang opposite to the jetty, there stands a dilapidated building. This 17th century building can crumble anytime, but it used to be the
Come winter and guests descend on the pristine water of the jheelsof Bengal. This year, lakhs ofmigratory birds have found a new haven ---ponds of Narja-Karjana village in Bhatar of East Burdwan district. Villagers of this area are not only excited with the new friends
It was in April 2012, when I first felt I must unearth the lost story of Kolkata’s Alipore Zoo Hybridization Program. I had a discussion with a colleague of mine on whether hybrid animals could be fertile. Whilst my colleague stolidly maintained that all hybrids
After the success of Kanyashree and Sabuj Sathi, the West Bengal government has come up with another innovative project called Bangla Gramin Abas Yojna, that is set to touch the lives of around five lakh people living in rural Bengal. The project will be officially
Here is some incredibly inspiring news from Kolkata! Two class XI students of a Kolkata school have won accolades for a research that could lead to an innovative and cost-effective way of treating cancer! Shuvayu Das Gupta and Syed Roshan Ali, classmates at La Martiniere
Bengal for a long time had been free from Mughal rule, thanks to its geo-political location and also some extremely valiant local kings who resisted any Mughal march.But it was not for long. Mughal emperor Jahangir sent his trusted general Raja Mansingh to subdue Pratapaditya,
Interested in a spooky tale? And that too in a station at Purulia? Begun Kodar is a tiny station lying between Kotshila-Muri under the South-Eastern Railways. It was in the early 1960s that Lachan Kumari, a queen of the Santhal tribe that inhabited this area,
How many of us can even imagine the presence of ISRO, BARC-Mumbai, Geographical Survey of India, Ministry of Earth Sciences stalls in a rural fair? Well, it was a pleasant surprise indeed, as I along with my Kishalay (the NGO I run in Sunderbans) kids
The West Bengal government has decided to auction 900 kgs of old, damaged celluloid film reels which include fragmented monochrome prints of films and documentaries as well as colour celluloid film reels. According to government officials, these reels are damaged and there is no way