A Bengali poetry book in the middle of an Australian Desert! This 18th century book when discovered was first thought to be a version of Quran but thanks to Bangladeshi academician who travelled all the way to the desert, it was realised the unearthed book
It was in the 1950s when Dr Sambhu Nath De, a Calcutta-based scientist, brought in a silent revolution in the world of medical science. It was during this time when he discovered the cholera toxin. “De’s clinical observations led him to the bold thought that
A near-complete retrospective of the visionary Bengali director Ritwik Ghatak’s career, will be featured at the prestigious Lincoln Center between November 1-6. The career of director, writer, and actor Ritwik Ghatak was one of constant struggle and as his contemporary Satyajit Ray had once said,
In an age when elderly parents are being abandoned, neglected, beat up or even thrown out of homes by their children, one Kolkata man has been working relentlessly to provide daily meals to more than 300 old persons, who have no one to help. And
At a MIT press meet yesterday, Indian-American Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee spoke on the current slowdown of Indian Economy and urged the government to make policies which work and not policies which they imagine will work. He even cited recent survey datas which are being
This is where the huge horizon acts like a canvas with statues and murals of international acclaim rising before your eyes. As one steps inside the Kala Bhavan campus of Santiniketan, one comes across stupendous murals, at times unique sculptures lying around. The place has
It is indeed a great news for the whole of Bengal as Abhijit Banerjee and his wife Esther Duflo along with Michael Kremer were awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo became the
With Abhijit Bandopadhyay winning the Nobel Prize for Economics 2019, the city of Kolkata has again come up on the global news for Bandopadhyay is a native of Kolkata and was not jus born in the City of Joy, but had his schooling and college
Durga Puja is not just the largest street festival of Kolkata, but also a big revenue generator for the state and its people, primarily artists and craftsmen. With more than 10,000 pujas in Bengal and more than a thousand more in other parts of India
He is often referred to as the prodigy of Amartya Sen. And today Abhijit Binayak Bandopadhyay indeed makes his teacher proud by winning the Economics Nobel Prize. Incidentally Bandopadhyay's professor Amartya Sen also won the Economics Nobel in 1998 and his legacy continues. Abhijit is a US