After a tremendous response in Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore, SheThePeople.TV brings the Women Writers’ Fest to Kolkata on 8th December. The day-long festival puts the spotlight on authors, writers, bloggers and editors, featuring firebrand panelists from across genres. An ideal forum for women writers
Well, social media can unify two souls and that’s what a speech-and-hearing impaired couple from Bengal proved. Tulsi Sharma of Birbhum and small-time merchant Subhendu Saha are both speech-and-hearing impaired, but that did not deter them from expressing their feelings for each other online! Tulsi is
The sight of Basam Sonar dragging his crooked body with immense difficulty will melt the heart of anyone who sees him for the first time. But he is an exceptionally brave man from Lakshmipara Tea Estate in Banarhat, Jalpaiguri district. His disability could not overpower
Meet the father-son duo from Kolkata, who have been featured in the recent issue of prestigious scientific journal NATURE and its latest Nature Materials issue for their path-breaking research that will give more power to laptops and phones. Their invention promises to revolutionise the way
If you have been to the ancient Kanak Durga Temple of Jhargram, you must have come across a forested stretch around the temple, unkempt and littered with plastic and packets thrown by pilgrims who come in hordes to this area. But the place is to
It has been ages since Kapotaksha River lost its glory. Large steamers, launches and boats laden with heavy goods no longer ply on the river. The bank of the river is no longer frequented by businessmen and traders from distant lands and the sprawling sugar
She is a scientist from Bengal who has won multiple awards including the recent Infosys Award of the year for her path breaking research in cancer, but ISI director Sanghamitra Bandopadhyay is as humble as ever. She loves to be remembered and called just a
When the media glare often turns these days to the question of triple talaq and how Muslim women need to be uplifted, few of us probably recollect Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. She was India’s first Bengali Muslim feminist, who inspired women to dream, and that
He is soon going to make provision for drinking water. But not just water, he also wants to arrange for a dustbin, a first-aid box and a fire extinguisher in his conventional rickshaw.But since his vehicle is inadequate to accommodate all these, he is going
How many times have you stumbled while writing in the Bengali font and wished there was some technology that could convert Bengali voice recordings into text? How many times have you cringed while writing in Roman font all that you wanted to pen in Bengali?