The second day of the 60th Garment Buyers & Sellers Meet & B2B Expo, organised by the West Bengal Garment Manufacturers & Dealers Association (WBGMDA) at Science City, witnessed an overwhelming response from buyers, retailers, distributors, wholesalers, and industry stakeholders from across India and overseas.
Political history is too important to be left either to political memory or to political mythology. Its first obligation is historical explanation.
In O. Henry’s The Last Leaf, ailing Johnsy clings to life because one painted leaf refuses to fall. Such is the power of optimism; it does not need to be certain to be effective.
Having studied, in the sixties, at two of Bengal’s iconic institutions, and having observed the paths these have traversed, some thoughts crossed my mind for consideration of the new government.
Light follows darkness. After the 15-year long TMC era ~ most certainly a dark period in the socio-economic and political history of Bengal, people are now hoping for rejuvenation of a state that has fallen beyond the depth of anarchy and despair.
Songs, lights, colours and the energetic pulse of Kolkata filled Kala Mandir recently as G.D. Birla Centre for Education staged its annual concert. The two-day event transformed the stage into a living, breathing celebration of identity, imagination and childhood.
Bengal has long been a land of dualities, a unique soil that nurtured the spiritual fire of Swami Vivekananda and, decades later, became a stronghold for the revolutionary zeal of Karl Marx. For much of the 20th century, the intellectual history of this region oscillated between these two poles: the ochre robe and the red flag.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of two National Highway projects worth around Rs 3,200 crore at Ranaghat in West Bengal’s Nadia district today.
In an age when independent artistic expression often struggles to find room to breathe, a new cultural initiative from Bengal is attempting to reclaim a space once intrinsic to India’s creative conscience.
Union home minister Amit Shah is scheduled to visit West Bengal on 29-30 December, signalling the BJP’s renewed push to strengthen its organisational base and electoral strategy ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections.
