Tag: Culture
City of Consciousness: Why Kolkata Still Hits the Streets
Kolkata: Long ago, Dominique Lapierre in his novel, nicknamed Bengal’s capital as the City of Joy, a tag that since then got attached with...
My fond childhood memories of Kaduna
In the Eighties, as a ten-year-old, I accompanied my parents to Kaduna, a small and peaceful city tucked away in the northern part of...
Food For Thought: Are Traditional Bengali Dishes No Longer The Craze?
Kolkata: Bongs are big foodies. In fact, cinema and food are the twin obsession of this community not to mention literature and Robindro songeet....
Pakoda: More a part of our culture than a tool in political gimmick
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi described Pakoda sellers as employment gainers at a TV interview, he did two grave blunders: first, he displayed his...