Tirthankar Roy discusses the unique appeal of Bengal’s textiles, its global significance, and the factors that led to its ...

Khastgir was born in Calcutta although he traced his roots to Chittagong. Accor­ding to Kamal Sarkar’s Bharater Bhaskar O ...

U.N. officials on Monday asked for $6 billion for Sudan this year from donors to help ease what they called the world's worst ...

Famine had long been a part of life in Bengal, but the one that began in the late 1760’s was turned into a full blown humanitarian disaster by the East India Company. It’s hard to come to ...

The forgotten story of World War II: the Bengal famine in British India, where at least three million people died, told for the first time by the eyewitnesses to it. The Bengal Famine of 1943 in ...

The forgotten story of World War II: the Bengal famine in British India, where at least three million people died, told for the first time by the eyewitnesses to it. "Three million is great radio ...

Once the preserve of the royal and the rich, portraiture became a tool for artists Chittaprosad and Somnath Hore to document Bengal famine victims as fellow humans deserving of respect and not ...

New Delhi: Thousands of anganwadi workers and helpers assembled in the national capital on Thursday to demand ...

In Bengal, racked with post-famine epidemics, the Raj replaced the late Provincial Governor Sir John Herbert with handsome, able Australian Richard Gardiner Casey. The appointment of a Governor of ...