In the vegetarian cooperative that I call home, I tried celebrating Bengali New Year by making a fermented rice dish. For the ...

From the red-light districts of Kolkata to the centre stage of Bengali theatre, Binodini's story reveals the gendered ...

The grand inauguration of the Jagannath Dham in Digha was a divine celebration of culture, devotion, and Bengali cuisine ...

There are a lot of women chefs with interesting takes on their native and learned food, be it Goan or Keralite. A good ...

In a bid to broaden its user base in India, Reddit has updated its machine translation feature to support the automatic translation of posts and comments ...

Moushumi’s career began with Tarun Majumdar’s superhit Bengali film Balika Badhu. She was 19 at the time, but in this lovely ...

Although Indians are predominantly meat eaters, Hindutva activists are enforcing a fanatic vegetarianism on everyone, ...

They say it risks erasing a symbol of Bangladesh’s pluralistic tradition. People march down a street during celebrations marking the Bengali New Year in Dhaka on April 14, 2025, with a bust apparently ...

According to the calendar, King Shoshangko of ancient Bengal is credited with starting the Bengali era, which began in approximately 594 CE according to the Gregorian calendar. People pray for a ...