On January 26, 2015, India’s 66th Republic Day, women marching contingents of Army, Navy and Air Force debuted in the national parade at Rajpath in New Delhi. Then in 2018, an all women bikers’ team of the Border Security Force (BSF) had made its debut.
At times I feel sad that many Table Tennis players of today have not even heard of Rupa Banerjee (nee Mukherjee), an exceptional Table Tennis player and an asset to India. She was often called the ‘Golden Girl’ of Bengal and was a great motivator
A simple, rather innocuous announcement published in the social media recently caught the attention of netizens. There was a visual of a duck with the announcement written on top -- ‘Duck Catching Competition.’ People were curious to know about the unique sport event while many
So inextricably is the name of Jaldapara linked to the Indian one-horned rhinoceros that one often tends to overlook the other attractions that the national park offers. Of course, the rhi-noceros is practically the entire reason why Jaldapara National Park exists, but there is much
Pratibha was a Bengali girl married to Avtar, a businessman of Punjab. They were childhood sweethearts. Pratibha was shocked when she realised that her father-in-law had deprived her sister-in-law from any property on his side and gave it all to her husband citing that she
August 12 was first designated International Youth Day by the UN General Assembly in 1999, and serves as an annual celebration of the role of young women and men as essential partners in change, and an opportunity to raise awareness of challenges and problems facing
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) conducts the prestigious Civil Services Examination (CSE) annually to select some of the best brains in the country who aspire to take up a career in the civil services. The selection procedure is pretty rigorous and can be understood
On World Elephant Day, what disturbs any naturalist of India is the Human-Pachyderm conflict. Something that over past many decades have killed thousands of elephants that are endangered today. Like their African cousins, Asian elephants have dwindled in numbers over the years. Either baby elephants
Before you do anything else in Bakkhali, take a walk down its south-facing crescent shaped beach. Nothing short of a geographical oddity, it is one of those rare beaches in the world that offer an equally spectacular view of sunrise and sunset. Nearly eight km
Many of us will agree that Satyajit Ray’s Gupi Gayen Bagha Bayen would be incomplete without Jahar Roy’s epic portrayal of ‘Mantri moshai - shara jantri moshai.’ His partnership with Bhanu Bandopadhyay in Bhanu Goenda Jahor Assistant, Ashiteo Ashiona, Miss Priyangbada are simple masterpieces in