Best left in the drawer?
A government report that spends more than a decade in a drawer tells a story regardless of what is written on its pages.
A government report that spends more than a decade in a drawer tells a story regardless of what is written on its pages.
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.
Kolkata loves to mythologise its own pluralism; yet here, in the diminishing footprint of India’s Chinese-origin community, “Desi-Chinese” is not branding rhetoric but the residual articulation of a lived history embedded into quotidian food practice.
Tension broke out in Mathurapur in South 24-Parganas district of West Bengal on Tuesday after as many as 15 school children had to be hospitalised after they had fallen ill consuming an infected mid-day meal, officials said.
In Indian religious and cultural tradition, the Rasa Festival is a unique spiritual expression. It is a harmonious confluence of devotion, music, dance, and divine love. Originating in Vrindavan around the Maha Rasa, the festival spread across India.
The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls began across West Bengal on Tuesday, along with similar exercises in 11 other states.
On Tuesday, Mamata Banerjee and TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, will lead a mega protest march from the Gandhi statue on Red Road to Jorasanko Thakurbari.
