By Umme Sayeda Rivers, as Bengal’s nurturing mother, shaped the soul of this land and cultural landscape. The ever-flowing water and fertile sediments formed the entire Bengal region, nourishing ...

West Bengal is a state full of contrasts. From the serene Himalayan foothills in the north to the mysterious mangrove forests ...

Rivers also leave their mark on human vocabulary. People living along the steep banks of the Jalangi river in Nadia have a distinctive word for such edges — paudi.In Bongaon, those residing by the ...

Beguiled by the beauty of Bengal on a journey up the Hooghly River: Eight days of bright colour, feasts, history and spice-laden air.

In the 1960s, the river Ganga changed the course of thousands of people’s lives after it was channelled into the Farakka Barrage Project, setting them up for displacement and uncertainty. Shiv ...

Continuous rainfall and dam water release cause severe flooding in West Bengal, prompting relief efforts and criticism of government response.

West Bengal: Several BJP workers took a boat to cross the Tribeni river in Hooghly to reach Nabanna in wake of the party's Nabanna Chalo march after workers were stopped by police and lathi charge ...

They embraced ‘river religion’ as the way of life, fabricating Bengal’s folklore and traditions long before the Sonaton (old) Dharma (religion), and other religions’ rooted in the Bengal ...