Rural and once upon a time urban Bengal were well conversant with adda sessions, sitting together on a mat spread across the floor. These mats popularly known as madoor in Bengal are prepared from a special kind of reed grass, found in places like Sabang
One speech of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore that will always be etched in memory is the one he had written for All India Library Congress, that was delivered on his behalf in December 1928. He was then sixty-seven years old and explored the theme of libraries
Kolkata Christmas Festival, 2023 Every year they get bigger and brighter – the Christmas lights swaying in the northerly winds as winter sets in with great aplomb in the City of Joy. And with that kickstarts the dazzling fervour on the street that never sleeps –
The relationship between Bengal and terracotta has long been a special one. Beginning with mosques and temples, which were made of terracotta in the relative absence of other building materials, the use of burnt clay gradually spread to smaller artefacts and even articles of everyday
Oxford Bookstore became witness to an extraordinary evening filled with intellectual ardour and historical rediscovery on December 6, 2023, as the book "The Life and Times of David Hare: First Secular Educationist of India" by author Sarojesh Mukerjee was launched. The event was graced by
Left : Professor Sourav Chatterjee and Right : Professor Arindam Ghosh Six eminent scientists, including those from MIT, Harvard and Stanford universities, were awarded the prestigious Infosys Prize 2020 on 2nd December for their outstanding contributions to research and innovation. The annual award includes a pure
For the poet, Gagan Harkara was his peon, the great baul exponent Lalan Fakir was his supplier of betel leaves and one of the palkiwallahs was his Guru -- that’s what Santidev Ghosh writes in his book Rabindrasangit, reflecting upon how important post or letter
Examining the disappearance of the telegram, the pen and the ink pot or even the gramophone record has had a deep connect with Rabindranath Tagore. But how? Tagore had an intimate and inseparable contact with all of these, particularly telegram that he often used to
West Bengal sets a path breaking example in Plasma Therapy research. A majority of researchers are claiming control trial of plasma therapy on Covid-19 patients under the age of 66 is showing encouraging results. When the West Bengal government decided to set up a plasma
A century ago Rabindranath Tagore describes Boson particle through Nataraj Nritya! Concept of Light is often presented with contrasting pictures. Experiments often suggest that light consists of tiny particles that look like innumerable corpuscles. This shower of minute objects in today’s parlance are called Bosons, after