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Their handicap is not a hindrance

Everyone knows the story of Paradise Lost. An Elizabethan poet, overcoming his physical hindrance sang Heavenly Muse and here, nearly 400 years later, 30-odd youths--all visually challenged from the streets of Kolkata with their Miltonic unconquerable will and the courage never to submit or yield have literally created a Heaven out of a Hell.

19 November 2018, 09:38 IST

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Their handicap is not a hindrance

19 November 2018, 09:38 IST

Ray of hope for rickshaw pullers

Hand-pulled rickshaws are patronised by the people for cheap and short-term mode of transport

19 November 2018, 09:32 IST

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Ray of hope for rickshaw pullers

19 November 2018, 09:32 IST

First glass mosque in the country

Masjid has a seating capacity of around 2,000 and has separate space for women to offer prayers.When Sayeedullah Nongrum, General Secretary of the ...

19 November 2018, 09:32 IST

First glass mosque in the country

First glass mosque in the country

First glass mosque in the country

19 November 2018, 09:32 IST

They turn around wheels of fortune

Inmates of correctional home make attractive jute products

19 November 2018, 09:32 IST

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They turn around wheels of fortune

19 November 2018, 09:32 IST

Divided by boundary, bonded by mission

Many Muslims helped in the renovation of a mosque maintained bya Hindu family.

19 November 2018, 09:32 IST

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Divided by boundary, bonded by mission

19 November 2018, 09:32 IST

He preserves what others have written

Literature is an expression of emotion and little magazine is a forum for experimental and alternative literature in the vernacular where young and budding talent unremittingly express their emotions in different forms of art.

19 November 2018, 09:32 IST

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He preserves what others have written

19 November 2018, 09:32 IST

He has been toiling for 35 years to green Kolkata

He has fought and won a legal case and succeeded in changing public indifference. But he did not lose his heart or interest. He continues to strive for making lanes of North Kolkata green.

19 November 2018, 09:32 IST

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He has been toiling for 35 years to green Kolkata

19 November 2018, 09:32 IST

64 squares charm aficionados on Kolkata streets

When Siegbert Tarrasch, one of the strongest chess players and most influential chess teachers, said chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy, he never had the idea about the band of buffs under the Gariahat flyover in South Kolkata or at Rajballav Para in North Kolkata for whom these 64 squares are the universe.

19 November 2018, 09:32 IST

64 squares charm aficionados on Kolkata streets

64 squares charm aficionados on Kolkata streets

64 squares charm aficionados on Kolkata streets

19 November 2018, 09:32 IST

Techie shows new window to market traditional art forms

When Amitava Bhattacharya decided to leave his lucrative job in the Silicon Valley and return to India to work for the revival of the dying art forms of the country, hisfather had asked him a very simple question-- Is it work or pleasure?

19 November 2018, 09:32 IST

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Techie shows new window to market traditional art forms

19 November 2018, 09:32 IST

Slowly fading into history

The Jewish Community in Kolkata

19 November 2018, 09:32 IST

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Slowly fading into history

19 November 2018, 09:32 IST