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An Irish teacher, after a meeting with Swami Vivekananda, donned the title of Sister Nivedita and spent her life caring for Calcutta’s poor during the plague and famine, and joined India in its freedom struggle.

UPSC CSE: IAS officer T Prateek Rao scored one of the highest marks in the Essay paper of UPSC Mains. Here's his strategy.

Kolkata's iconic Pice Hotels once offered affordable meals to hungry and homesick migrant workers. Today, these traditional eateries still attract foodies and tourists searching for authentic Bengali food flavored by history.

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

As Netflix prepares to launch 'Ray', a four-part series based on short stories written by Satyajit Ray adapted for the screen, we revisit what some legendary filmmakers across the globe had to say about his work.

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.

The first Asian wrestler to win the World Professional Wrestling Championships Jatindra Charan Goho aka Goho Gobar from Calcutta took his family's legacy to great heights. Yet his achievement remains unknown in India.

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

From discovering Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar to mentoring Naushad Sa'ab, Manna Dey and Mohammed Rafi, the prodigiously talented Hindi music director Khemchand Prakash left behind an enduring legacy.

Payal Saha, a former resident of Kolkata, set up Kati Roll Company in New York and London in 2002 and today makes almost $14 million in revenue.