Tea Crisis
As the sun sets over the rolling hills of the Terai and the Dooars plains, casting long shadows over the verdant tea gardens, a silent crisis unfolds beneath the surface.
As the sun sets over the rolling hills of the Terai and the Dooars plains, casting long shadows over the verdant tea gardens, a silent crisis unfolds beneath the surface.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Wednesday campaign in Maharashtra for the Lok Sabha elections.
Much of our Hindu celebrations are tied up with nature and the change of seasons. In Bengal, Akshaya Tritiya was a day when fruits were offered to deities before mortals could enjoy them wholeheartedly.
The time has come to bring back the lost glory of Bengal, the Prime Minister said.
The margin of lead in the Diamond Harbour conspiracy in the forthcoming Lok Sabha election is likely to go up, said Abhishek Banerjee, national general secretary of Trinamul Congress and party’s nominee from the constituency.
Since the import took place by post (known as daak in Bengali), this special type of ornamentation became popular by the name of Daaker Saaj.
One of the leading Puja clubs of Kolkata, Bhowanipur 75 Palli , this year has come up with an innovative theme of ‘Aitijhya Beche Thak’- ‘Let the Heritage Live’, to uplift the moral of Bengal’s rich cultural heritage on Bengal’s most celebrated festival Durga Puja.
The city, arguably the country as well, witnessed its very first instance of theme pujo through Kumartuli Sarbojanin by holding Netaji’s hands.
The Dasa Mahavidya are ten Hindu Goddesses, namely – Kali, Tara, Tripura Sundari, Bhuvaneshwari, Chhinnamasta, Bhairavi, Dhumavati, Bagalamukhi, Matangi and Kamala. Each Mahavidya is a form of the Adi Shakti.
From the mid-90s, the “baroyari pujo” of Kolkata began adapting the form of “theme pujo”. Bengal beheld the rise of “theme pujo” in the heart of Bengal.