COVID-19 has not just killed and made people fall sick, it has given rise to a plethora of other grave problems from financial, educational and to health issues of non-COVID population who might be having some ailment or the other. Take for example Thalessaemia patients
He had saved every penny of his income and built a hospital a couple of years ago in Baruipur for the poor and needy of the locality. Cab driver Md Saidul Lashkar has again come forward during these difficult times of crisis and has handed
Here is that rare letter written by Rabindranath Tagore to Lord Chelmsford, the Viceroy of India protesting against the terrible human rights violation when General Dyer ordered his British Army to fire on innocent unarmed civilians who had gathered for a peaceful protest. Tagore had
Arun Subramanian was leaving Corona hit France, where deaths are mounting by the day and was returning to India with a lot of scepticism as to how the country is prepared and how he will be treated. He was so overwhelmed at the preparedness of
Kolkata will see an unprecedented Good Friday this year, perhaps the first of its kind ever. A Good Friday live streamed to members of community, so that they feel as close as possible virtually. After all these are trying times and just like Jesus Christ
If the eerie moors of Sherlock Holmes’ Hounds of Baskervilles had sent shivers down your spine, the swamps and grasslands of Gajoldoba would instead welcome you to chirps and tweets … to a Birder’s Paradise. Down the tranquil waters of Teesta barrage, driving down picturesque
If you have ever travelled the picturesque road to Mungpoo cutting across the dense forests on the foothills of the Himalayas, you probably would catch up with your tour guide’s proposed destination of Tagore Museum. The place where Rabindranath Tagore spent his time often and
We have seen a Drug War this week between USA and India, with US President Donald Trump almost begging and then threatening India to supply Hydroxychloroquinine, the anti-malarial drug that has come up as a magical medicine to cure COVID-19 patients. Interestingly, one of the
With the COVID-19 scare invading the world, every scientist in every country is trying to rein in this virus that is causing a worldwide pandemic. In an attempt to try out a modified form of the time-tested BCG vaccine widely used in mass immunization in
Bengali lass Bhasha Mukherjee, the beauty queen who made headlines last year as Miss England 2019 has returned to the United Kingdom from overseas charity work to fight the coronavirus pandemic as a doctor. After all, she is a qualified junior doctor and responded to