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.
Aiming to popularise Bengal’s Durga Puja internationally, Tollywood actor Rituparna Sengupta is to visit Times Square in United States of America as a representative of Bengal’s biggest festival.
“Advocates don’t retire, judges do,” remarked the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, Justice T S Sivagnanam, while inaugurating the new court building at City Centre this morning. Reflecting on his career, he added: “I have served the judiciary for 16 years and may return to the Bar after retirement.”
With only a few weeks remaining for Goddess Durga to descend from her celestial abode on Mount Kailash to mark Mahalaya—the beginning of Devi Paksha—preparations are in full swing across West Bengal.
A pall of grief and fury descended on Nischintapur Battala in Nadia’s Tehatta on Saturday after the body of a missing nine-year-old boy was recovered from a nearby pond, sparking violent mob reprisal that left two neighbours dead and one critically injured.
In an age where plastic dominates our everyday lives, even in the smallest of practices, a modest college in rural Bengal has innovatively crafted an alternative.
