Ghurni: Bengal’s craft village where life-like clay dolls are bridging the rich-poor divide

Over half-a-century back, when Kanchan Bag was still a child, his father would hand-pull the [...]

Kolkata floating market gets tourists but awaits regular customers three years after it opened

Over 250 colourful boats dot Lake Patuli in a southern suburb of Kolkata. There’s nothing [...]

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s courage and compassion live through his letters

Letters written by an individual are often a reflection of his or her personality. It [...]

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Sundarini: the organic milk revolution by women of Sundarbans

An all-women organic dairy cooperative covering 70 villages of Sundarbans is creating waves in the [...]

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Sundarbans residents turn homes into homestays as tourists look for authentic Bengal experience

Tarun Sarkar from Jharkhali village in the Sundarbans could not find a job even after [...]

Sholapith: Bengal’s eco-friendly ivory craft intrinsic to life and death

During rainy seasons, acres and acres of marshlands in West Bengal’s Sundarbans delta area are [...]

How Culture Therapy is transforming lives of inmates in West Bengal’s prisons

In 2006, when B D Sharma was Inspector General of West Bengal prisons, he decided [...]

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Kolkata Little Magazine Library: one-man effort to preserve rare books & periodicals

The bright yellow wooden door of 18/M Tamer Lane, just off Kolkata’s College Street, opens [...]

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Bengal’s Natungram: Craft village where wooden dolls come alive

“Prosperity dwells in those Bengali households which keep at least one wooden owl stashed away [...]

From weathering cyclones to tiger attacks, how Sundarban inhabitants forge resilient lives

“Here, in the Sundarbans, danger lurks everywhere,” says 28-year-old Anita Barman of Hogol Duri village. [...]