The temple we carry home: why Jagannath’s mysteries stay with us
For many Bengalis, the journey to Puri begins long before they board a train. It begins with a story.
For many Bengalis, the journey to Puri begins long before they board a train. It begins with a story.
History remembers the phrase anyway because it captured something people desperately wanted to believe: that those who ruled France had become incapable of understanding the ambitions, anxieties and frustrations of ordinary people.
The Bengalis are endowed with a unique talent of saying a lot without saying much. There are some Bengali words that are untranslatable in other languages.
It is second nature to Bengalis to identify as khadyoroshik — the word being a distillation of sensibilities.
In a shocking and bizarre incident, Bengalis were beaten up in Kolkata after being branded as Bangladeshis by a group of Hindi-speaking traders in West Bengal.
With the ‘puja mood’ setting in among Bengalis, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is trying to make the most of the ongoing dry spell for repairing roads.
The Gariahat Chess Club is an open-air space beneath the Gariahat flyover where kings and queens have been strategically manoeuvred and conquered for years. The club was formalised in 2006 with Bengal’s first Open Air Chess Tournament and was successfully given a facelift in 2018 with 13 tables bearing laminated chess boards.
About a week ago BSF troops at the Kalyani border outpost (BOP) in Nadia district in the southern part of the India Bangladesh frontier seized 200 kg of hilsa worth Rs 2,40,000 (price at source).
As a matter of fact, CAA does not apply to the tribal areas of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura as included in the Sixth Schedule, and the area covered under the inner line notified under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873.
There are many people who have mocked the merit of Bengalis and said that Bengal cannot produce scientists. But it is to be remembered that our talent works everywhere from NASA to Bhasha'. When people try to insult Bengalis I cannot tolerate it.
