Pollution pitfalls
Swaati Chaudhury reports on the 500-year-old Cooch Behar Rash Mela and what’s wrong with the way it is organised THE annual Rash Mela held in the vicinity of the Madan Mohan temple in Cooch Behar is

Feast for the eyes
Sikkim’s Tibetan festivals are worth seeing, writes Subrata Chowdhury THOUGH a small chunk of Sikkim’s population consists of Tibetans, many a Tibetan festival is celebrated across the state round th

Towards oblivion?
A Gandhi loyalist and a friend of Netaji, Dal BahadurGiri first exploded the long-nurtured myth around the legendary loyalty of the Gorkha community towards English imperialism and brought into the o

Malda’s many faces
The regieons history, culture, spiritual and economic tradition is the subject of a recently published anthology. Santanu Basu discusses the work in detail MALDA has a glorious tradition of folk cul

The importance of style & commitment
Poetry, Utpal Kundua tells Parag Biswas, adds richness to our lives — from rhythmic nursery rhymes to beloved song lyrics to gently crafted epitaphs — and recitation adds richness to poetry NOTED