The trail of Bengal’s lesser-known rivers and their backstories
The nods, Karmakar explains, are rivers personified by male gods who fell in love with the nodis and wanted to merge with ...
How students of Calcutta’s Hindu College created an idea of ‘the people of India’ under British rule
The Young Bengal was a group of Bengali free thinkers from Hindu College, Calcutta. They were also known as Derozians, after ...
In 1905 Bengal partition, the making of Bangladesh
The partition had opened a Pandora’s Box. The communal identities it created eventually culminated into the end of British ...
Bengal's Birbhum witnesses violent clashes over Holi; internet suspended, heavy security deployed
Violent clashes between two groups occurred over Holi in West Bengal's Birbhum forcing the government to suspended internet ...
Rare, reclusive bird sighted: Australasian grass owl seen in Bengal after four decades
The forester said the last record of the bird in Bengal is from 1980 in Ajoy Home’s 'Chena Achena Pakhi', where he mentions ...
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Making of nearly extinct Bengal boat, digitally preserved by British Museum project
A boat that carries centuries of Bengal’s history but is nearly extinct has found a place in the digital archives of the British Museum ... for the first time in India. It is a proud moment ...
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Bengal CM gets Centre's approval to visit UK to deliver address at Oxford University
The Union government has given permission to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to visit the United Kingdom (UK) ...