Know what goes behind a Bengali's mind when he engages in an 'adda session' over cups of tea
Bengalis are always fond of ‘adda’. Be it over cup of tea or over a platter of fries in the evening, adda and bengalis go hand in hand. Also when it comes to politics or football, the arguments switch over to a never ending process. These are the two things which never bore a Bengali. So, when it comes to news, these two are the most favourite topics of a Bengali ‘Bhodrolok’. As Bengalis are always politically opinionated, he always has a longing for good quality Bengali news . The relation of Bengalis with news is not new. It dates back to 1760, when James Augustus Hickey started his newspaper The Bengal Gazette from Kolkata. Though it was closed down within a short period, it paved the way for more newspapers to come in the following years. Raja Rammohan Roy, the First modern man of India, started two newspapers, one in Bengali and the other in Persian. The Bengali newspaper Sambad Kaumadi was one of the pioneers of Bengali news in India. Even during India’s freedom struggl...