Professor Neena Gupta, a Mathematician from Kolkata and faculty member of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata has become the fourth Indian to win Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians this year. The Ministry of Science and Technology has also informed that she is the third woman
HThe seventh edition of India’s first Bengali literary festival, Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsab (ABSU) curated by Oxford Bookstores, ended at Oxford Bookstore on December 12. The good thing is, the end here does not necessarily mean the end, because the sessions are available digitally for
Some people make us smile simply by existing. Shibram Chakraborty, the great humorist born in Kolkata in 1903 on today's date, is one such person. Chakrabarty was born into the well-known Chanchal Raj family, and his father Shibprasad Chakrabarty would often speak of the road
How has Indian cinema treated Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose? This is the topic for the December 12 edition of 'The Anita Dialogues', a series of monthly conversations with Netaji's daughter Dr Anita Bose Pfaff, aired on YouTube and conducted by Sampriti, an organisation of Bengalis
More people were killed in the Bengal Famines of 1770 and 1943 than the number of Jews killed by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime. But since there is no special day of remembrance for them, today, Human Rights Day, is as good an occasion as any
While we speak of various European churches strewn across different parts of Bengal that speak of our colonial history, we often miss the 2nd largest church of India, St. Joseph the Worker Cathedral, which is popularly known as the Raiganj Church. The cathedral has a
It took them until 2020 to consider him for a Sahitya Akademi Award. The year his ‘Chowringhee’ turned 60, and he himself turned 86. We are of course talking about one of Bengal’s most popular, and curiously enough, perhaps one of its most underrated living
Elusive for more than 170 years, the Darjeeling Wildlife Division finally rediscovered the Satyr Tragopan Bird at the Senchel Wildlife Sanctuary. The first ever sighting of this very colourful bird was reported by Hickell in 1842 under British India, between the present Kurseong and Sonada
CCyclone Yaas which originated in the Bay of Bengal in the middle of May this year left behind a trail of destruction and devastation in West Bengal. It also flooded East Midnapore’s coastal areas. Several villages were inundated due to breach of embankments and pisci-culturists
Kalna in East Burdwan district is an ancient town on the western bank of the Bhāgirathi river. The town is more popularly known as Ambika Kalna, named after the goddess Kali, Maa Ambika. Now the town is at the centre of attention because of scientist