Mahasaptami: Kolkatans soak in festive spirit
Kolkata, Oct 1 (IBNS): With the dawn Mahasaptami ushering in, the festive spirit, joy and enthusiasm of the Bengali community in Kolkata received an extra fillip on Wednesday as people upped their celebratory mood to a great deal.
Durga Puja: ITC Ashirvaad Atta launches "Chatpate Pandal Hopper"
Kolkata, Sept 30 (IBNS): To make puja pandal hopping more exciting, adventurous and rewarding ITC Ashirvaad Atta announces the flag off ceremony of "Ashirvaad Shobcheye Chotpote Poribar Contest" the one of its kind puja pandal hopping contest to test the energy, enthusiasm and eagerness of true Bengalis.
Puja: Berger Paints turned citizens of Kolkata into judges
Kolkata, Sept 30 (IBNS): Berger Paints completed a unique campaign for the special occasion of Durga Puja- Priyo Pujo, where the citizens of Kolkata voted and judged their favourite Pujo in the city.
Durga Puja celebrations start with Mahashashti
Kolkata, Sept 30 (IBNS): With the Maha Panchami night fading away, Hindus especially the Bengali community in Kolkata geared up to welcome Goddess Durga along with her four children (Laxmi, Saraswati, Kartik and Ganesh) amid pious rituals as the festival officially kicked off from Mahashasti on Tuesday.
Maha Panchami commences Durga Puja festivity
Kolkata, Sept 29 (IBNS): Finally it's time for the Bengali community across India and specially in Kolkata to take a break from their busy lives with the dawn of Monday ushering in the annual festival of the Hindus-Durga Puja amid celebrations of Maha Panchami.
In search of roots from Hungary to the plains of central Asia, and then landing in India to stay on, the astonishing journey of scholar Csoma Koros fascinates Ranjita Biswas on a visit to Budapest
Jewellery has been a woman's personal grooming asset from ancient times and India is no exception. Today with imitation and costume jewellery flooding the market, women have even more options to dress up and dazzle, says Anju Munshi
Aditya Vikram Sengupta was named the best director of a debut film recently for his Bengali 'silent' film Labour of Love (Asha Jaoar Majhe) in Venice Days, an independent sidebar of the Venice International Film Festival. Shoma A. Chatterji in conversation with the debutant director
What price modernisation, ask people of Jaipur as the under- construction metro project threatens to damage its many heritage monuments. Rekha Pal reports
The romantic islands of Hawaii is symbolised by the sensuous Hula dance. Rekha Pal delves into its history on a visit to the volcanic islands
Sylvan historian with a pencil
Does drawing as an art form still appeal? Has drawing as an art form that goes back to the time of the growth of human civilisation really reached the last frontier? Uttara Gangopadhyay explores
A slice of Indian life in America
A newly opened exhibit in the Smithsonian museum complex in Washington, D.C. gives a glimpse of the struggles and achievements of the Indian community in America. SPAN writer Jane Varner Malhotra reports
Freud Museum: Cave of Memories
Vienna's Sigmund Freud Museum highlights the prolific travels of the founding father of psychoanalysis in an exhibition to mark the 75th anniversary of Sigmund Freud's death in 1939 from relocating to Vienna as a three year old to his escape and exile in London as the Nazis advanced. Sujoy Dhar visits the museum in the Austrian capital
Here comes the coconut express
The postman comes knocking with a coconut, literally, because this is the way letters are sent from this unique post office in a Hawaii island, Rekha Pal discovers
Indian newspapers survive as online media takes over the U.S. where print journalism is facing crisis. Holly Brucken in USA and Deepshikha Hooda in India report