This is the festival season in India, and in Bengal it is the season for Puja shopping. We also joined the bandwagon for the shopping and the gourmet spree that often characterises the life prior to festival season. Currently there are various kinds of mela (fairs) that are put up at Asansol that are selling [...]
Archive of entries posted on September 2005
Vishwakarma Puja
Vishwakarma Puja is a big occasion of celebration in the industrial belt. This comes every year on Sept 17th. The festival celebrating the God of Industrial Craft ie. Vishwakarma is an important but less known dimension of Bengal. This time I attended one such ceremony in the main telephone exchange at Asansol. In the industrial [...]
Indian Ocean Trade
A version of this essay was published in the Encyclopedia of World Trade published by ME Sharpe Publishers, Armonk, New York. Indian Ocean Trade © Anup Mukherjee The Indian Ocean trade network spans from east coast of Africa through Middle East to western and eastern India and then on through Burma to the different islands [...]
