Jhulan Goswami from Bengal has yet again created history, this time with a stupendous innings taking India’s women’s cricket team to a fabulous victory. In the 2nd ODI series against New Zealand, India has knocked out the hosts in their very own backyard. Last Monday,
‘ShobKhelar Shera Bangalir Tumi Football’…. as the song rightly says, nostalgia finds its true place in the football history of Kolkata. Kolkata is known for its madness for this very sport and has a rich history of some of the oldest clubs of the country.
Chess is called the game of the brains and tactics. It is slow, but steady, and opens up young minds to those ‘little grey cells’ that Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot always spoke of. Bengal has always seen chess as a very popular indoor game and
“The world thrives on speed and accuracy,” these were the first words that Gopal Bose said when I first met him as a teenager. But that was not my last meeting, for I went on to coach under him in the days to come. Having
Rohit Sen is an ex-student of La Martiniere and has participated in the Athletes Meet organized by the Debanjan Foundation Just a week after the FIFA World Cup, Kolkata gets ready for yet another football carnival. With 40 participating schools this time around, The Debanjan Cup
Korak Sen is a student of Sports Management at an Australian University The cricket season in Bengal is about to begin with inter club transfers starting from 1st September. This is a time when most clubs, both Division I & II, look forward to strengthen their
There is an undying love and passion for football in some parts of India, when it comes to the FIFA World Cup. In Kolkata, every four years, this takes on epic proportions bordering on a craze or madness – that magically emerges from nowhere capturing
“India is crazy about football, Bengal is crazier and often known as Mecca of Football,” that’s what I said while conversing with Guido Tognoni and Sepp Blatter, secretary and later the president of FIFA. It was way back in 1990. The FIFA stalwarts were stunned
Hundreds of Bengalis are burning their lamps every night these days, from slums to highrises! And why not? After all, World Cup Football undoubtedly will create waves in a city that is known as the Mecca of Football. Bengal has always been partisan towards football
A small house in Panchanantala of Howrah. It is here that a Messi fan lives who also runs a drawing school. Apparently, nothing is extra-ordinary in this story. But once you visit this middle-class para of Howrah, you come across Ranjan Kurmi who has beat