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Cooch Behar’s blonde queen – From the London swish set to the empty royal palace

London-born Gina Narayan loves Cooch Behar more than any other place in the world. The beautiful Cooch Behar palace, her handsome husband on a horse, tennis or badminton in the afternoon… the images flash through her mind, 27 years after she left India.

Gina was Georgina Egan before she married Maharaja Jagaddipendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur of Cooch Behar in 1956. “We were introduced at a dinner party in London and married secretly after a three- month courtship,” recounts the 76-year-old, sitting in a room bedecked in oil paintings and black-and-white photographs of royal family members at the Dev Burman residence on Ballygunge Circular Road. Full Story

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Teesta Barrage Project gets a new completion commitment

SILIGURI: West Bengal irrigation department has come up with a new commitment for completion of Rs 3k crore worth Teesta Barrage Project (TBP) that has already gained its nick name as ‘Never Ending Story.’ After 26 years of its planned completion date and already with over 2200% cost overrun, the incomplete project still remains as a major factor to influence socio-economy and politics of north Bengal. Click here for full Story

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KNOW ABOUT RAJBANSHI KSHATRIYAS IN EASTERN/NORTH-EASTERN INDIA

Hindu Rajbanshi community is the only ‘Kshatriya Varna’ people in West Bengal, Assam and in the entire Northeast India. These Rajbanshi speaking people numbering more than two crore, ordinarily reside in strategically located areas of whole of North Bengal (barring its hilly terrains), lower Assam, western part of Meghalaya, Purnia and Kishanganj districts of eastern Bihar, two districts of eastern Nepal, northern Bangladesh and their adjoining regions from the earliest times of India’s existence. They have a glorious history (latest being the Koch Empire that flourished during sixteenth century and ruled Cooch Behar till 1949) but for socio-economic, linguistic and political reasons they are now on the brink of losing their identity, losing their homeland and leading a life of neglect. Click here to read the full article by Captain Ray