“Mr President, Ladies and Gentlemen. I trust that you will accept in advance an apology because I am going to place before you a history of the way in which from a Christian Communalist, I became a Christian Indian Nationalist. It was merely an accident
“Finally, they have chosen me?” That was the first question that Narayan Debnath asked after being chosen as a Padmashri awardee this year. For a man who over 70 years has dedicated his life into creating landmark Bengali comic strips like ‘Bantul the Great’, ‘Nante
On January 25, 2011, the Government of India under then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced that henceforth, this day would be observed as National Voters’ Day every year, primarily in order to encourage more young voters to take part in the political process of the
Nobody seems to be quite sure why India observes January 25 as National Tourism Day every year. However, the day is certainly a useful reminder of how large an impact tourism has on the country’s economy. Sadly, almost the whole of 2020 was marked by
US President-elect Joe Biden on Friday named Indian-American and Bengali born Sumona Guha as senior director for South Asia. Guha was co-chair of the South Asia foreign policy working group on the Biden-Harris campaign, and serves on the transition’s State Department Agency Review Team. Currently
How does it feel when suddenly books and classes and teachers all go online and virtual? Online mode of imparting education has become the future learning instrument in the days of COVID19 pandemic, particularly in India, where it was not as popular as in the
Adina Mosque No matter which way you look at it, Malda is special. Not only is the district headquarters one of the state’s largest cities after Kolkata, but the district as a whole represents the confluence of the various cultures and royal dynasties which have historically
“His romantic saga, coupled with his defiant nationalism, has made Bose a near-mythic figure, not only in his native Bengal, but across India.” So say authors Barbara and Thomas Metcalf in their 2012 book ‘A Concise History of Modern India’, talking, of course, about Netaji
Wonder, what would have Ronald Ross said, had he witnessed the string of deaths in Kolkata in recent months due to dengue and thousands more affected by malaria? Worse still, 40% of malarial patients in the city are not even responding to the standard malarial
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