Once Madhusudan Majumdar, a famous publisher of Bengali books, decided to celebrate the birthday of a renowned author ceremoniously. Among the organizers were such stalwarts as Sailajananda Mukhopadhyay and Sajanikanta Das, eminent editor of Shanibarer Chithi. When they met the author to inform him about
Flag of India 1907 (Nationalists Flag) Today is what we have come to know as Flag Adoption Day, the day the tricolour was officially adopted as the flag of independent India. What’s more, we are now in the 75th year of said adoption. And still, very
Recently, the Geological Survey of India (GSI) identified two geological heritage sites in the Indian Himalayan Region of India. The sites are Siwalik Fossil Park, Himachal Pradesh and Stromatolite bearing Dolomite/ Limestone of Buxa Formation, Sikkim. With the inclusion of these two sites, there are
“Necessity is the mother of invention” – goes the saying and it has been proved right once again by Chandan Biswas of Karimpur, Kechuadanga who initially contemplated manufacturing a solar bicycle to reduce his travelling expenses. Biswas had to paddle 10 kilometers daily to reach his
Image Courtesy : Nepali Times “T“To Calcutta, much abused, much loved, always interesting.” Thus reads the dedication in the book ‘Calcutta, An Artist’s Impression’, first published in 1968 by The Statesman Ltd, and later republished as a commemorative volume. The author of this remarkable book was
Mayer deowa mota kapor mathaye tuley ne re bhai/ Deen dukhini Ma je toder taar beshi aar saddhyo nai….(Rajanikata Sen) (Brothers, please accept with gratitude the coarse cloth offered by your mother because your poor despondent mother cannot afford anything better) ‘Mota Kapor’ here is synonymous with
‘Sottyo Seleucus! Ki bichitro ei desh (truly Seleucus, what a strange land this is)!’ This line has become all but a proverb in Bengali, one we see used almost every day without really thinking about the source. The truth is, this is a line from
Music is a language that transcends all boundaries. Uttarpara girl Nabanita Ghosh, an alumnus of Serampore College and Rabindra Bharati University who is now a resident of Copenhagen, Denmark, has touched upon that universal language of music. She is the first Indian to reach the
Rabindranath Tagore reigned supreme in the sphere of Bengali poetry. But in the 1920s, a group of new poets consciously distanced themselves from the Tagorean brand of mystic spiritualism and idealized romanticism, seeking to find a new poetic language to reflect their existential angst in
The Lion seems to have left in recent times being the King of the Jungle and instead stepped on to becoming the controversial king of social media. At least the recent controversy on the National Emblem and the face of the lions depicted raise a