Bengali, Sake Dean Mahomed, opened Britain's first Indian Restaurant Hindoostane Coffee House in London in 1810. It may have failed but Britain has since enjoyed a long and passionate love affair with the tastes of India.
TED 2013 Prizewinner Sugata Mitra’s first independent, solar-powered learning lab is making learning fun in this small village located in the mangrove swamps of Sunderbans.
No country in the world comes close to matching the linguistic diversity of India -- just the number of 'mother tongues' in the country, as listed in the 1961 Census, is 1652!
People in West Bengal will be able to get information on the exact price of crops at any specific location in Bengali. The agency is trying to make the number toll-free.