It all started a year ago in Tianjin, China, when the next meeting of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) was announced to be scheduled in Buenos Aires. The acronym TWAS has an added suffix that reads: ‘for the developing world.’ TWAS was established by
Annapurna, Anna, Nalini… call her by any name, she would have always remained Rabindranath Tagore’s first love. And it’s always said ‘First Loves’ can never be forgotten, they are like the waft of the first Spring breeze, like the innocence of the first sapling that
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
Imagine a Bengali woman translating world literature from French to English, that too in early 19th century! Considered to be one of the founding figures of Indo-Anglian literature, Toru Dutta alongside Henry Louis Vivian Derozio brought a revolution in English and French literature, yet how
“The birth of two spiritual leaders within a short span of a few thousand years is remarkable and of immense importance. I had this very strong conviction within me that Buddha was reborn as Christ. Buddha had predicted that he would return after 500 years,
Author Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay Remember those hilarious sequences of Monojder Advut Bari? Creator Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay is a genius with a difference, because he is one author who could create timeless yet funny characters that kept children and adults in good humour. Even his ghost stories and detectives
On September 19, 1923, ‘Abol Tabol’, an anthology of Bengali children's poems and rhymes composed and illustrated by Sukumar Ray was published by U. Ray and Sons. The book contained 46 titled and seven untitled short rhymes (quatrains), all considered to be in the genre
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
The year was 1914. Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay was studying at Sahebgunj Railway School. One day while in class, he received a summon from the headmaster’s office. The news spread like wildfire and all his friends were worried. What had he done? Satya Doctor’s son (his
Kazi Nazrul Islam was not just a revolutionary poet, but a multi-talented genius, who was probably least explored and publicized. He even composed music for Bengali films. His first work was with the movie ‘Dhruba.’ The proprietor of Madan Company, Grami Sahib signed a contract