A vast number of poems have been written in Bengali on the Partition. However, until now, those poems had never been translated. That long-overdue task has finally been accomplished.
No Bengali palate is complete without drops of ghee, be it rice, roti or paratha! For anyone from the Bengali diaspora from across the world, gastronomical delight lies in the smell and taste of ghee.
The renowned Bengali-language singer Pratul Mukhopadhyay was a creative artist and songwriter.
Sonar Kella, one of Satyajit Ray's most beloved children's films, continues to captivate audiences of all ages.
Mayor Firhad Hakim today inaugurated the renovated Chetla Boys' School, where along with Bengali, English medium has also been introduced.
Rousseau writes in The Social Contract, “The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.”
He is a familiar face on Bengali television and has acted in a number of popular daily soaps over the past decades. But many don’t know that Dr Bikash Bhowmik is also a successful and sought-after homoeopathic doctor who spends his one off-day attending to patients who come from far and wide in his chamber in Kolkata.
Poila Baishakh, the first day of the Bengali New Year was observed across the state with great enthusiasm. The day is also observed as the foundation day of Bengal.
She was 79-years of age and was suffering from age-related problems for some time.
In a bid to attracted young readers a new Bengali publishing house has brought out books in the shape of Iphones in the Kolkata International Book Fair.
