As the nation watched double Olympic medallist P.V. Sindhu and men’s hockey captain Manpreet Singh lead the Indian contingent out at the 22nd Commonwealth Games which was declared open on July 28 at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, UK, not too many would have noticed
Bagh Bandi We don’t know if you have ever played it, or even heard of it, but Bagh Bandi is a two-player strategy board game which has its origins in southern Bengal. With a name like that, which literally means ‘captured tiger’ in Bengali, it is
Changwon, South Korea. Not a name familiar to most Bengalis, but likely to be remembered now as the venue where Bengal girl Mehuli Ghosh clinched gold in the 10 m Air Rifle Mixed Team final of the Shooting World Cup on July 13 along with
The news of the Bengali girl Mehuli Ghosh along with Tushar Mane winning gold at the ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun stage in Changwon, Korea made all of us proud. In the 10m Air Rifle Mixed team category, winning the gold was not easy. Mehuli and
July 1952, Helsinki, exactly 70 years ago. The capital of Finland was playing host to the 15th Summer Olympics, and the Indian contingent included only four women - swimmer Dolly Nazir, athletes Nilima Ghose and Mary D’Souza Sequiera, and a second swimmer who should more
King Kahn was only one of the sobriquets bestowed upon him, and from all accounts, it was richly deserved. Bayern Munich and Germany’s former goalkeeper Oliver Kahn will go down in history as one of the greatest and most successful football goalkeepers of all time,
After Malda and Siliguri, Bengal Tennis Association (BTA) zeroed in on Darjeeling as the next destination of choice for setting up the third international standard synthetic tennis court which was inaugurated at the Darjeeling Gymkhana Club recently. Bengal Tennis Association (BTA), the governing body of lawn
Lathi is an ancient Indian armed combat technique. It also refers to one of the world's earliest martial arts weapons. Lathi khela is an indigenous martial arts form of Bengal and its practitioners and experts are termed lathiyals. The very mention of ‘Lathiyal’ immediately brings
Sayani Das became the first female swimmer from India and Asia to cross the Molokai Channel in the Hawaiian Islands. On Friday morning, April 29, Das completed her expedition. This long-distance swimmer has already crossed the English Channel, Rottnest Channel in Australia and Catalina Channel
It was a day just after Dolyatra this year when Raja Das of Kolkata decided to do the unthinkable and climb the treacherous Gojaburu Hills of Purulia without using any ropes or other rock climbing instruments needed to scale such a difficult hill. He did