A balance between environment and development has to be struck, the secretary of Bengal’s environment department said at The Bengal Club 11th Annual Panel Discussion in association with The Tele...

The Bengal Club 11th Annual Panel Discussion in association with The Telegraph will be held on Friday. The Telegraph gives a lowdown of the event. When: Friday Time: 5.30pm Venue: ICCR Hall, Ho Chi...

Last evening, I sent out 21 Eidi bags (jute bags from Lata Bajoria) to kids across communities. I filled each bag with Alpenliebe candies. Stray Rs 2 coins. And some currency. I wrote a card secured b...

And yet. Even this institution died out a few years ago, partly because Eid night coincided with the monsoons and one couldn’t quite do this inside the community hall of a gated complex. Our col...

Rahman emphasised that this shouldn’t be a one-off case and people from other localities can easily replicate this model. “One can procure a second-hand fridge for Rs 4,000. If enough peop...

I was not alone. There were dozens from Kolkata’s middle-class to whom Sevantibhai said: “Somvaar thi Stewart aavi jaajey” and have since gone on to become multi-crore tycoons. I was...

The overload of ‘Ramadan Kareem’ WhatsApps during the early days of the month and a tsunami of ‘Eid Mubarak’ messages with crescent moons and minarets designed into them when...

Patherya says, “They are remarkable people. I encounter such people in everyday life, I know and write their stories. Hearing them talk is therapeutic and sobering at the same time.” Join...

If you view this from this perspective of the gracious Fifties or Sixties, people reserved the right to disagree without becoming disagreeable; if you see it through the 2022 prism, you realise how mu...

Then I heard the most preposterous thing at our last Sarobar session. These fellows are planning to get themselves invited to Deshbandhu Park (right across the city) where they intend to sit in the op...