A few questions to begin with

Mari Marcel Thekaekara has worked with indigenous people in the Nilgiri mountains for thirty years, and researched and written about dalits and …

Pantabhat - well slept rice

Rice has been a staple food of West Bengal from antiquity and thus was grown in abundance all across the region. At one time, 60 varieties of …

Wither civil society?

Many have become even more marginalised after 25 years of Left Front rule in Bengal

Kolkata's desi soft drink

The US beverage giants shell out billions to pop out punch-lines, and repackage Shah Rukh Khan to counter the repackaged Aamir Khan and vice-versa.…

Bitters for starters

A typical Bengali meal is eaten course by course. Kaushik Das Gupta shows how the tradition helps refine taste buds

Earnest endeavours

West Bengal's women panchayat members have become the torchbearers of rural development programmes in the state

Fights for space

Once harmonious, the human-elephant relationship has taken an ugly turn. Faulty forest policies and nationwide destruction of elephant habitats …

A day with Shibu Karmakar

Nitin Shethi learns more than he had reckoned, from local wisdom

West Bengal village sits on archaeological treasure

Plastic purge

Chittaranjan township sports a new look as its residents say no to plastic carrybags

Burdensome load

Laid-off tea workers fall back on forests in West Bengal

An organic cup of tea

The right mix of quality and profits

Eastern coast of India to witness heavy rains this week

Bay of Bengal likely to host a tropical depression

Humble filter makes a comeback

Traditional bio-sand purifier can filter arsenic which most commercial water purifiers fail to do

Business on pedals

Why diseases are "mysterious"

The government's public health system is completely defunct. Of late, there has been an alarming rise in disease outbreaks in the country. …

The seven-second meet

On an assignment in the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve, TIASA ADHYA spends four days on a dinghy and chances upon the elusive cat on day three  

Changing lives

A development project, which has got patronage from the panchayat, is changing the face of many villages in North Bengal

The devil and the 'deep sea' fishing

In the Indian context, the term 'deep sea' has very little to do with depth. It refers to India's Exclusive Economic Zone: the 188 nautical miles …

24/7 water supply

Three villages in West Bengal's Darjeeling district also export organic tea

Two leaves and a bud, a tale of certain exotics

Sayantan Bera chronicles the simmering discontent in the picturesque tea gardens of Assam, Darjeeling

Life in captivity

Captive breeding programmes a ray of hope for near-extinct turtle

A red politician who saw opportunity in green

A chief minister who gave autonomy to environment regulators

Play by the rules

Is the sponge-iron industry listening?

We found lots of muck

College students in Asansol, West Bengal put the area's drinking water to test