As the clock ticked away, Uttirna Mukherjee, working at the NASA Mission Control Center for the International Space Station in Houston, USA, along with hundreds of fellow scientists and technologists, fighting to save the International Space Station and the seven astronauts inside it. Russia conducted an
As the mercury starts dipping, we suffer from an irresistible urge for drinking something that offers us the much needed warmth during the freezing winters. Coffee and tea are common in ever weather. But nothing can beat the taste of a hot chimney soup. Chimney
It is very common in our society to blame medical practitioners of government hospitals for negligence, apathy towards patients or incompetency but despite the heavy patient load, Bengal has some of the best doctors who continue to serve the society silently. Recently, a team of
In 1907, Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumdar (1877-1956) compiled a number of Bengali folk tales and fairy tales he had been listening to since childhood, into a book he called ‘Thakumar Jhuli’ (also referred to as Thakurmar Jhuli). It was quite possibly the first time that the
At times photographs can start a lifetime bond! It was the year of 1914, when Rabindranath Tagore went to Allahabad and stayed for about three weeks with Pyarilal Bandyopadhyay, the son-in-law of his nephew, Satyaprasad Gangopadhyay. During his stay there, he spotted a photograph hanging
Part 5: Illustrious descendants of Siraj Sourindrakishore’s first wife, Tripureswari Devi, died under mysterious circumstances. They had one son, Upendra Kishore Roy Choudhury who was brought up at his maternal uncle’s home. Does the name sound familiar? After Tripureswari Devi’s demise, Prasanna Kumar married twice to
Part 3: Watershed Chalan Beel destroyed by Railways The north-western segment of the Eastern Bengal Railway (EBR) contributed to the deterioration of the water regime of Northern Bengal by the way the railway exposed itself to the Chalan Beel. The Chalan Beel was a vast deep
By 1947, there were five faculties and 17 teaching departments at Dhaka University. At present, the university consists of 13 faculties, 83 departments, 12 institutes, 20 residential halls, three hostels and more than 56 research centres. The number of students and teachers has risen to
Hastings Chapel As we near the end of our walking tour of Kolkata, it is now time to venture to the south and west, and heading to the centre. The best place to start is Rabindra Sadan, from where you can hop onto a bus for
Part 4: Why Jugalkishore asked his son to relocate to Shillong Jugalkishore’s youngest son, Prankrishnanath Roy Choudhury chose to stay with his parents, Jugalkishore and Yamuna Devi in Kajalsha (or Kajal Sahar) in Sylhet. During this phase, Jugalkishore gradually transformed into an ascetic and led a