Remember Dr Subhash Mukhopadhyay? The genius doctor who despite creating world’s 2nd test Tube baby while experimenting here in Kolkata, was heckled by his colleagues and repeatedly transferred? None recognised his feat in those days and Dr Mukhopadhyay was forced to commit suicide. In memory
A couple of months ago, Soumya Das from Nadia district made India proud after winning the title of Mr Universe 2019, organized by the World Fitness Federation at Seoul, South Korea. Soumya achieved the feat after 67 years since any Bengali won the iconic title.
Kolkata will get a new museum at Town Hall emphasizing on the city’s heritage quotient. The museum will be exclusively on Kolkata’s past and historic events. The museum project is being executed by a group of heritage enthusiasts of Purono Kolkatar Golpo group and IIT
It’s true that some of the very best ideas in human history were imagined by visionaries and it is often their giant stature that overshadows everything and everyone around them. Take for instance, the case of Dr Ronald Ross, the British physician who received the
The prized Royal Gallery of Victoria Memorial that had so long harboured priceless paintings of Vereschagin, Zoffany and Abanindranath-Gaganendranath Tagore was out of bounds for the general public. Now it will be thrown open to all and will display among its various paintings, the famous
If you are lovebirds and wish to be at a lover’s paradise, then do not miss Peshoke’s Lover’s Meet. Yes, you heard it correct, there is a romantic view-point on Peshoke Road called Triveni or Sangam, where two eternal lovers meet – Rangeet and Teesta. By
It was indeed a terrible saga in the political history of West Bengal, much macabre than the pangs of partition that Bengal had seen in 1947. Nearly 1,700 refugees from East Pakistan were massacred by police and communist cadres during Jyoti Basu’s rule in Bengal.
• How did Silco start and why? It was established in the year 1981, as a trading unit and my father traded in various sports gear and wear of different brands from our shops and showrooms. • You say your father started the company, but you as
Sayantan felt the need when he was giving his first school leaving board exam. It was a need to have a proper reader-writer who would help him in writing his board papers in 2010. For Sayantan is visually challenged. Today he is a teacher and
People say hard work and challenges really do turn us into the people that we are meant to be. We would not grow and learn if we were not challenged. At least that is the adage that keeps the mother-daughter duo, Pratima and Rakhee Poddar,