Kolkata

Travel down the memory lane to Kolkata and it’s nostalgic streets, with these beautifully captured scenes by photographer Shibasish Saha.

Dilip Basak’s rectangular shop in the bylanes of Kolkata is one of the few remaining ones in India that can breathe new life into fountain pens.

Pandal director Rintu Das conceptualises the unique Maa Durga sculptures being honoured at Barisha Club pandal in South Kolkata every year that his students painstakingly create.

Three brothers Suren, Kiran and Hemen Roy started the Bengal Lamps Ltd in Kasba, Calcutta, to manufacture and sell swadeshi electric bulbs

The arms from the forgotten Rodda Arms Heist fueled rebellions such as Hindustan Republican Association (HRA), who conducted the Kakori train robbery in 1925, and the Chittagong Arms heist in 1930.

At a time when only romantic Bollywood songs were commercially acceptable, Moheener Ghoraguli was born. Led by Gautam Chattopadhyay in Kolkata in the '70s, they made music on social issues and their own lives.

Kolkata-based Sumit Agarwal launched PR Signal, a public relations firm in 2017. He talks about life with cerebral palsy, the challenges he overcame along the way, and what it means to be inclusive in India.

A retired eye surgeon in Kolkata, Dr Kali Prasad Saha is nurturing more than 250 plants in his terrace garden. These include grapes, guavas and sweet limes too.

Madhu Kandoi, founder of Khichdi Khichri, has added 30 types of khichdi to the menu in the last five years.

In 1975, Prabir Das, a ventriloquist from Kolkata bagged his own show on Doordarshan Bengali to showcase his extraordinarily artful talking doll, 'Michael'.