What Bengal needs desperately is to embrace its glorious past, exhume its heroes with warts and all, and not shy away from ...

Kolkata, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday expressed concern over reports that MPs were allegedly being restricted from saying ‘Jai Hind’ and ‘Vande Mataram’ inside Parliament, and asked ...

A capacity audience at one of the auditoriums of the Bishwa Sahitya Kendra last Friday was mesmerized by the rendering of ...

Banerjee said she had come across media reports claiming that the patriotic slogans were not being permitted in the House.

The birth centenary of a musical maestro of modern Bengali music passed by rather quietly. In Salil Chowdhury, music and a ...

DHAKA, Nov 22, 2025 (BSS) – Marking the 64th birthday of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy director general poet Rezauddin Ahmed Stalin, the National Poetry Council observed the day with a special ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday expressed concern over reports that MPs were allegedly being restricted from saying ‘Jai Hind’ and ‘Vande Mataram’ inside parliament, asking ...

If you happen to pass them when they are having a break between work, you might find them sitting on their haunches around a ...

On November 7, at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium, a piece titled 'Vande Mataram - Naad ekam, roopam anekam' ("one symphony, varied renditions") was performed by a grand orchestra comprising ...

In such a restrictive era, Sufia Kamal defied the frowns of a conservative society and had her portrait taken in a studio. The photograph was taken at the famous C. Guha Studio in Kolkata and ...

Used to be a handkerchief, now it’s a cat!” — who knew the famous line from Sukumar Ray’s poem would come true in this manner ...

In one corner of the Bankim Bhavan Gaveshana Kendra Museum, some 45 km from Kolkata, a bronze bust, a handwritten music book, a shawl and a turban compete for space in a pastel-blue room lined with ...