Swami Vivekananda Only the other day a news hit the headlines --- on how a ruckus broke among parents of a reputed city school when a child of ten years had mistakenly shared his non-vegetarian tiffin with a classmate coming from a vegetarian family. The immediate
The city was a site of continual trauma and degradation of the human subject during the Bengal Famine that demanded a kind of poetry where ‘Our history will be shaped by/ Hungry stomachs.’ As the young and rebellious poet, Sukanta Bhattacharya asserts in uncompromising tones: My Spring
India is free but she has not achieved unity, only a fissured and broken freedom. At one time it almost seemed as if she might relapse into chaos of separate states which preceded the British conquest. Fortunately, there has now developed a strong possibility that
Chamurchi is famous for its musical stone cave Known for its panoramic beauty and lush green tea gardens, North Bengal’s mystical ‘Chamurchi’, located on the Indo-Bhutan border, is every nature lover’s paradise. Situated 60 km from Jalpaiguri, this quaint little hamlet is a relatively less frequented
Swimmer Rimo Saha Former Russian swimmer, Alexander Popov, known as the Russian Rocket and Czar of Swimming, is widely considered the greatest sprint swimmer in history. He had once said, "The water is your friend
Jhandi,an offbeat destination in Dooars Jhandi is a living, breathing, spectacular Himalayan paradise, where you can spend a weekend surrounded by lush, tropical evergreen forests of sal and pine, home to some of India’s rarest Himalayan flora and fauna. Jhandi’s excellent climate and picture perfect setting,
August 12, World Elephant Day Elephant corridor. This is a phrase that has increasingly become part of our general lexicon. Which could be a bad thing - because it indicates that as human and elephant habitats collide, the discussion on elephant corridors becomes more urgent -
Eminent Physicist Bikash Sinha Is fundamental science a criminal luxury in India? A revolutionary question that scientist Bikash Sinha, former director of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, dared to ask and voiced his concerns on how political leaders are deliberately spending
The state government makes Bengali mandatory as a second language in private English-medium schools Bengal sings with contentment, "Moder gorob, moder asha/Aa mori Bangla bhasha," - the Bengali language is our pride and hope; it is the language we can die for! Bengal has witnessed her
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fnKB0V4lDU The West Bengal Forest Department received the "Star of Governance SKOCH Award in Forest" for its effective management of the mangrove plantation drive West Bengal has become the Best Performing State in the Forestry Sector in 2022 and has been conferred the ‘Star of Governance SKOCH