Dalits' battle for temple entry sheds light on the state's rarely discussed caste-based oppression and covert caste conflict.
A common phenomenon of recent time, especially since the advent of the internet and smartphone, has been the profligacy of ...
The exhibition recounts how undivided Bengal clothed the world for centuries across the colonial capitals of London, Paris, Lisbon and Copenhagen – just as Mukherjee is doing today, on an even ...
East Bengal became a part of Pakistan, while West Bengal remained a part of India. However, Calcutta, the undivided capital of Bengal until 1947, remained in West Bengal, while Dhaka was once ...
The fish is named after a village in Bangladesh, which underwrites the nostalgia among Bengalis for undivided Bengal. Source: Getty Images Kalighat patachitra depicting a cat eating fish Credit ...
Pratul Mukhopadhya was born on June 25, 1942, in Barisal of the undivided Bengal, now a part of Bangladesh. His father was a schoolteacher. After the partition, his family shifted to Chinsurah in ...
It may have been light as air but in its heyday, the Bengal Muslin was a heavyweight whose popularity extended to Europe. Two garments from the Weavers Studio Resource Centre (WSRC) in Kolkata ...
Born on June 25, 1942, in Barishal, in undivided Bengal, Pratul Mukhopadhyay and his family relocated to India during the Partition, eventually settling in Chuchura in the Hooghly district of West ...
to be a party in a public interest litigation accusing the West Bengal of being reluctant in protecting the property of Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah, the last independent Nawab of the then undivided ...