I forgot about Raghurajpur for many years until a conversation with Tarek last night brought it up again. We were talking about dying art and handicraft heritag...
According to the dictionary, a Rajbari is a mansion or a palace that was built as a residence for a Hindu rajah. These are found in India and Bangladesh. Recent...
Bali Island, in the Sundarbans, is one of the best places to explore the mangrove forests of the area. It lies in the South 24 Parganas District of West Bengal ...
Sunderbans travel experience is one of a kind. Not only does one get to see this unique geographical landscape, but they also get an insight into the lives of t...
My first memories of the Sunderban Delta are of its people. Every year during my childhood - I am talking about 80´s India - I had seen people knocking from doo...
My Sunderbans trip happened twice: once with a lover and once with my family. As you can imagine, for the first time, I was very young, giddy in love, and obser...
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 ...
