Minister encourages college to work on ecological balance
Women’s College Calcutta, a premiere educational institution observed the World Environment Day with sixteen programmes.
Women’s College Calcutta, a premiere educational institution observed the World Environment Day with sixteen programmes.
The world’s at war, and inside Calcutta’s swankiest hotel, there’s champagne, swing music and scandal. It’s 1941, and while war drums echo across continents, the Great Eastern Hotel clinks with cutlery and whispered secrets, oblivious to the disasters hurtling towards it.
In the turbulent 1970s, Satyajit Ray turned his lens on Kolkata — a city caught between political unrest, corporate greed and moral collapse. Through his iconic Calcutta trilogy, Ray crafted an unflinching portrait of urban alienation, following three disillusioned protagonists as they steer through a city that demands survival at any cost. Ray explored how Kolkata becomes both a character and a crucible in cinema, reflecting the anxieties of a generation and a metropolis teetering on the edge.
Kolkata's cultural scene explores a fresh theme of intimate storytelling through objects and spaces with the exhibition of senior artist Malay Saha.
Chidakash Kalalay Centre of Art and Divinity presented their annual Marga Utsav on 23 March 2025 at Gyan Manch in Kolkata.
The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Innovation Park (IIM- CIP has awarded two women organisations for the initiative displaying strong commitment to building skills, providing market access and fostering entrepreneurship.
Kamal Naskar is among those rare, few mime exponents, especially in Kolkata and West Bengal, who has left no stone unturned to tap immense possibilities drawn from life—the potentiality of mime as a performing art.
Calcutta High Court, in a specially convened hearing on Sunday, has ordered a second post mortem of the body of the school girl who was allegedly raped and murdered at Joynagar in South 24-Parganas.
Recently, Kolkata witnessed two vibrant performances—a solo dance by Sangeet Natak Akademi awardee and recipient of Tagore Scholarship Aloka Kanungo at the Kalaakar Festival at Gyan Manch on 17th August followed by another on 26th August at Sisir Manch by her students.
The second International Classical Manipuri Dance Festival was held at Satyajit Ray Auditorium to pay a tribute to the 106th birth anniversary of Guru Bipin Singh by the artistic director Sruti Bandhopadhay under the Horizon series of ICCR.
