Ilyas Shah was more than a Sultan. He was Bengal's first famous brand architect. He took a medieval mess and turned it into Brand Bengal.
This is the smallest sovereign state on Earth, barely half a square kilometre in size, commanding the loyalty of over a billion people.
The Nazis succeeded in killing Anne Frank. They failed to silence her. Today, her diary has been translated into more than seventy languages.
Through the Bengal Renaissance and reform movements centered in Calcutta, Bengali thinkers gave modern shape and identity to Hinduism.
As the 2026 World Cup approaches, football's enduring appeal intersects with global conflict, nostalgia, politics, memory, and changing times.
Our planet looks beautifully blue from space due to oceans. World Ocean Day calls out to us to preserve the health of this beauty.
A millennium ago, Bengal flourished as a major Buddhist center, blending tantra, mysticism, poetry, and spirituality into its enduring culture.
Debasish Biswas recounts his 2010 Everest expedition, overcoming challenges, conquering the summit, and creating Bengal’s historic civilian mountaineering achievement.
A dye that initially colored fabric ultimately left its mark on history itself, while simultaneously embodying a persistent element of human resilience.
The manosphere exploits male insecurity, spreading hypermasculine, anti-feminist ideologies online that reshape relationships, normalize misogyny, and influence real-world behaviour.
Social media amplified political division, outrage, and performative activism, eroding empathy, nuance, and Bengal’s once-civil culture of disagreement.
Bargi raids devastated eighteenth-century Bengal, inspiring Gangaram’s apocalyptic poem about violence, moral collapse, political legitimacy, famine, and collective trauma.
Claude Debussy transformed western music through impressionistic soundscapes, painting emotions, seas, moonlight and atmosphere with fluid, visionary musical expression and depth.
The Magnum archive of his Bhopal project, titled with prosecutorial precision Exposure: Portrait of a Corporate Crime, spans 1984, 2001, and 2002.
Bedtime stories are often soft and forgettable, but in Bengal, they were vivid and memorable. They stumbled, soared, frightened, and comforted all at once.
Asha was a modern Ulysses, whose goal was “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
