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 festivals in January itself....
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 the beautiful bed sheets...
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. But the book that...
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 a rude shock when...
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 Asian Games, some girls...
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. Even metro cities like...
