Don’t we celebrate Teacher’s Day on the birthday of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan? But did you know he had a mentor-teacher in none other than Ashutosh Mukherjee, who was the Vice Chancellor of Calcutta University between 1906-1914 and 1921-1923. Other than being a brilliant educationist and academician
Teaching is not just about teaching what is written in text-books. It is also about teaching compassion. And that’s what a music teacher of Shyamnagar is teaching the society and also his students. In an age when we read horrific details of people killing puppies,
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose was a humble scientist. Else why would he share with the world his experiments on radio waves, that finally led to invention of radio. Any other scientist would have gone for a patent first to prove the work was unique and
Every afternoon after classes are over, retired headmaster Rabilal Garai is seen with his young students holding hands and taking him down the road. Yes, he heads home with help of his students, as he cannot see anymore. His vision is almost nil. But that
They are just 12-13 year old school kids. Yet their antics on Kolkata streets on their way to school that went viral on a video earned them a place at the SAI or Sports Authority of India. Jashika Khan and her classmate Md Eizazuddin never
Many buildings of Durga Pithuri Lane of Bowbazar are almost 150-year-old. They have stood against the test of time for more than a century. But today they are ravaged, many of them turned to rubbles, thanks to the East West Metro’s wrong calculation in boring.
When you speak of Bengali sweets, you primarily speak of Misti Doi as it is a hot favourite with sweet connoisseurs from across the world. And of the famous old Calcutta mishit doi shops, College Street’s Santosh Mistanna Bhandar stood out. Unfortunately, that very heritage
She spends almost Rs 40,000 a month to feed hundreds of stray dogs. And the meals can fit even a king, meat and rice cooked to perfection. Well, home-maker Nilanjana Biswas of Kalyani is a messiah for strays. To meet the huge expenses of feeding
You no more have to feel guilty of killing animals while eating that mutton or chicken next time! IIT Guwahati scientists have invented meat in their laboratory and have also applied for patent. Professor Biman Mondal, of Bioscience and Bio-engineering department of IIT Guwahati, led
Well, it is indeed a sad day for food connoisseurs of Bengal and those sweet-toothed foodies across the world, who used to take the famous Kalimpong cheese and lollipops home from the quaint Himalayan town of Bengal. What tea was to Darjeeling, this cheese and