When I first read a major excerpt from Meghnadbadh Kabya as part of my board examination syllabus, I felt like re-reading again. Not because Michael Madhusudan Dutta had used international poetic tools in an age when Bengali poetry could least imagine such treatment, but because
Diptarka Ghosh is a nature enthusiast and a Zoology research scholar with Zoological Survey of India “O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing…” La Belle sans Merci (John Keats) The Lake indeed is a birder’s paradise and
Gopal Krishna Gokhale had remarked, “What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow.” The award ceremony at the recent 106th Indian Science Congress once again proved that. History has proved how Bengal over decades have produced the best scientific brains, be it Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy,
Imagine a World War II bomb still lying for decades under a mighty river of Bengal? Well, it is no fiction, but reality. A bomb of World War II era was recently unearthed from the Gangetic bed. For all those war story buffs, this is
Rupam lost his grandfather, Rabindranath Ghosh when he was just fourteen years old. He had suffered from sunstroke. This death of a loved one had a deep impact on the vulnerable mind of a child and turned into a scar that would lead the child
Mallika Basu is not just another passionate cook and internationally famous food blogger and author. Being the daughter of famous theatre personality Dolly Basu and granddaughter of late Jyoti Basu, Mallika has imbibed much of Bengal in her cooking style, despite living in London. She
Here is a new controversy about Netaji Subhas Bose’s death, following a claim made by Indian born French historian, Jean-Baptiste Prashant. He claims Netaji did not die in any air crash because an old French secret service report dated December 11, 1947 found at the
This week three small islands in Andaman and Nicobar, that are popular tourist spots have got new names to mark 75 years of the first time hoisting of the Indian tricolour in British India. As a tribute to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Azad Hind
‘The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity…..’ Three youths from Balurghat proved it right yet again by creating rice seedlings through the mulching process and thereby showing new hope of employment opportunities. They have been able to gain huge profits through extensive
Our daughter’s name is Anita Brigitte. She should actually bear the name of Amita, but the German authorities would have certainly objected to such an unusual name, so we chose the name Anita which is almost sounding like Amita. Brigitte was chosen by me because