History

"Local doctors started suggesting that this fermented stale bread be given as a convalescent food to patients as it was easy to digest and kept their stomachs feeling full for long." #FoodSecrets

Did you know Kolkata was the second city in the world to implement an anti-air pollution law? Or that it's air was once declared "cleaner than any major European industrial city"? #History

The word halwa is derived from the Arabic word ‘Hulw’, which means sweet and its first known recipe appeared in the 13th century in Middle-East

Binodini Dasi led her life on her own terms, amidst all impositions by society. She carved her niche as an excellent actor and paved the way for other women in the industry. She certainly was a 19th-century feminist!

Despite being "God’s gift to Indian football", Padma Shri Goswami should have also been selected for the national cricket team!

The Rajput lady commanded 12,000 cavalrymen, funded indigo in Bayana and helped hundreds of Muslim pilgrims reach Mecca safely. Provoked by the Europeans, how could her royal blood keep quiet?

Nehru announced the birth of a free India in 1947 in his iconic speech—A Tryst with Destiny, and India was never the same again!

The British once banned Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay for being 'seditious.' He brushed it off, stating that if his book disgruntled the reader against imperialism, then it had served its purpose! #DeathAnniversary #Legend #ForgottenHeroes

“He (and his team) would carry a typewriter around on their village visits. At every hamlet, he would instantly issue an on-spot official decree to set up a government school & appoint teachers from among the educated in the village."