A common phenomenon of recent time, especially since the advent of the internet and smartphone, has been the profligacy of ...

Kolkata: As many as 18.5 crore tourists — both domestic and foreign — visited Bengal last year, its highest ever, placing the ...

Bengal’s handloom legacy is not just confined to museum displays; it breathes through collections by designers such as ...

Illustrations and old maps highlighting the textile hubs in Bengal, trace the influences ... many of whom were weavers seeing historical textiles from state museums and private collections for ...

Sahana Ghosh’s A Thousand Tiny Cuts explores daily life, migration, and survival along the Indo-Bangladesh border, revealing ...

Covering Bengal’s textiles from the 16th to 20th century, it explores trade, design, and production, along with insightful essays by textile historians and practitioners, and rare fabric photographs ...

Mr Speaker Sir, what did Bangalee intend to achieve? What rights did Bangalee want to possess? We do not need to discuss and ...

You know that tiny historical event where the British spent almost two centuries plastering their language across half the world, including—drumroll, please—Bengal. Let's get something ...

IN the modern age, it’s hard to imagine that there’s anywhere on Earth that we haven’t fully explored. But there are surprisingly large chunks of Earth that civilisation has yet ...

The map had clues to six city landmarks in Braille in the form of a riddle. The navigators had to solve a riddle to know the landmarks. The winners were decided based on points scored by reaching each ...

The Kodavas, sometimes known by the anglicised nomenclature- the ‘Coorgis’, have been undergoing turmoil and struggle for ...

Those who vandalise temples are hoodlums—the very elements in whose hands the Khalistan movement has always been. No wonder ...