West Bengal: The only Hindu Homeland blended in secular India
The creation of West Bengal as a state and its inclusion in India is an amazing case study in the political history of India.
The creation of West Bengal as a state and its inclusion in India is an amazing case study in the political history of India.
A heritage walk across North Calcutta retraced the life and legacy of Kadambini Ganguly, one of the earliest female graduates of University of Calcutta and the first practising woman doctor in British India. Moving through the streets and institutions that shaped her journey, the Kadambini Trail revealed how colonial Calcutta quietly nurtured a revolution in women’s education.
It has been the coldest winter in Calcutta, according to the IMD (Indian Meteorological Department), in a decade.
When ‘Babu’ and ‘Da’ become national issues, the voice of a 22-year-old Aurobindo Ghosh from Baroda can still be heard above the political din in contemporary India. Writing a series of essays in 1893-94, the young Aurobindo Ghosh stated: “Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya, the creator and king of Bengali prose, was a high-caste Brahman and the son of a distinguished official in Lower Bengal.
Winter has finally descended upon Calcutta. Chilly dawns bathed in the soft, golden glow of the rising sun is inviting enough to drag ourselves out of warm blankets and head outdoors for a refreshing run or to the terrace for a stroll or at least to the balcony to sit and sip cups of steaming tea or coffee.
The debut novel of Babujee, “Crimson Mirage” is an insider’s account of the Naxal uprising of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Blessed are those who make others laugh. These uncommon people, gifted with a sense of humour and comic timing, are treated as jokers but the fact remains that they make the world a much better place to live in. India needs more of them.
Chef Harpal Singh Sokhi engaged in an exclusive conversation with The Statesman
A new coffee table book of black and white photographs, to be globally launched in October, captures underlying threads of unity in the seemingly disjointed and marginalized world in the outskirts of a city
Millo Ankha — a renowned documentary photographer, educator, and founder of the AAMA Collective, well known for her visual documentation of Northeast India and Darjeeling, Ankha highlighted a diverse tapestry of indigenous identity, feminist criticism, and artistic expression.
