Travel into the world of literary puns and self-deprecating humour with none other than Shibram Chakraborty. And just have a laugh, and why not? This world seems to be missing humour these days. Remember how the author spelt his name? In that convoluted way: Shee-bram
Palaeobiology? Devapriya Chattopadhyay often encounters this question and finds it quite amusing because Paleobiology is, after all a growing and comparatively new discipline. Devapriya patiently explains this is a field of study which combines methods and findings of the natural science biology with that of
She is a rickshaw-puller whose decision to storm the male bastion has earned her the ire of her male colleagues. When she started plying her rickshaw, she was harassed, insulted publicly and denied to park her vehicle at the scheduled stand. The males ganged up
• Why did you feel the need to grow indigo again in Bengal? Were you influenced by the historical significance of the product? I have always loved the colour blue and I love nature. I lived in Nigeria between 1993 and 1998, where I encountered exquisite
What Salil Chowdhury searched through his protest songs, remembering numerous casualties in the bloody riots of 1948-49, food riots, farmers’ movement and after death of his close friend and poet Sukanto Bhattacharya, somewhere rings a chord with what singer, Farzana Wahid Shayan of Bangladesh sings
With Kolkata and suburbs reeling under the death nail of the menacing Aedes and Anopheles mosquitoes, the authorities are on their toes as to how to control these pests that are killing citizens, thanks to the deadly virus and protozoa they carry. What is worse,
• How was KREATIV formed and what is the significance of the name? Kreativ was formed in the second year of our college, but the idea started in high school when Chandrayeemade dresses from paper,for a fashion show competition at a school fest. So, when we
She is 43-years-old and a single mother of three children. She works as a domestic help and has already penned three books which have been translated into 24 languages. She is a regular speaker at diverse literary festivals held across the country. She is Baby
A barefoot girl in tattered clothes carrying burnt bricks to the factory area. A boy with an ashen face lying on the lap of his juvenile sister, a crumb of bread in his dirty hands. Another trying to balance a row of bricks on his
Mahi Naskar and Chayan Mondal would have probably landed up as school drop outs or labourers on farmlands, had not Godkhali’s Kishalay Foundation Centre come to their rescue. The foundation started their first scholarship named Apurba Ray Scholarship sponsored by Sujoy Roy from Bangalore for