Kolkata or Calcutta as it is still fondly called is the capital of India’s West Bengal state. Founded by merging three villages, it was an East India Company tr...
Jhargram is now a city, a district, and a tourist destination of growing repute. However, that is not what I remember from my earliest childhood days. I spent m...
“He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is ...
Calcutta or Kolkata as it is known now is perhaps India's most literary city. Calcutta loves to read and every year, the city hosts the wonderful Book Fair. It ...
I don't know what made me think of sharing a Kolkata photo essay at the fag end of this year. Perhaps, it is because 2022 was very tough and boring, or maybe be...
My posts on Calcutta are definitely not comprehensive enough as a guide, but are fondest memories of a place called home. However to present Calcutta's unique s...
'Some may say that film-makers romanticise the old world charm of Kolkata and that they are not painting the true real life of the city. I reckon perhaps it's o...
In continuation of the "This is my Brian's Calcutta", author Brian Paul Bach shares some interesting observations on one of his favourite places in the world.
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‘Howrah Bridge!’ I utter in a stunned whisper. It’s out there somewhere, closer than I think, and it is the only way I will get into Calcutta…'
On 5th of Mar...
During every Durga Puja festival time, I get inconsolably homesick. The grey cloud lasts until the week-long festivities are over and only after that, do I mana...
