Literature is a powerful tool to bridge the gap created by hatred and prejudice
Kolkata: Creating convergence to neutralise fault lines present between communities on the basis of religion, caste, class and regionalism was […]
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How a start-up from Kolkata saved the life of a leukemia patient from Bangladesh
Kolkata: Twenty-seven-year-old Rima Begum, a resident of Chittagong, Bangladesh, was diagnosed with leukemia (blood cancer) almost a year ago. Rima
Kolkata hosts its first Queer Literary Festival
Kolkata: The season to celebrate literature has set in. And Calcutta alone will be hosting not one but three literature
Kolkata girl promotes dying Madhubani Art using new-age technology
Kolkata: On a lazy summer afternoon, which was meant to be spent at leisure, Wasma Mirza was left awestruck by
January Date for Kolkatans to visit Human Library
Kolkata: The readers of Kolkata can boast of a new edition to their ever-increasing list of libraries in the city.
Doesn’t Maa Durga bleed? Asks Bengal-origin artist, faces FIR, threats and gets trolled
Kolkata: Visual artist Aniket Mitra, who happens to be a gold medallist from Kolkata’s prestigious Art College, was in for
Many underprivileged girls like Swapna Barman striving to shine on international area from Bengal
Kolkata: Around the time when Swapna Barman, a girl from Jalpaiguri made India proud by winning Gold in Heptathlon at
Meet the Kolkatans who stood behind the four Muslim doctors to stall their eviction
Kolkata: Muslims facing discrimination while renting a flat in most of the Indian cities no longer takes anyone by surprise.
Gauri Vrat, a festival in which even 3-year-old girl fast for good future husband, activists raise concern
Baroda: Seven-years-old Khushi Dholakia, dressed in her fineries is patiently waiting for her friends at a Shiva Temple, in their
What’s there in a name? A lot, when it conjoins Quran and Gita
Bhopal: ‘Bismi Krishna’. Do you make out anything of this? I could not. So I asked the owner of the