The only way to stop the COVID-19 from spreading is to contain it, that’s what all scientists across the world believes and have realized through research. Once it spreads across the community, may be our situation will be as grim as Italy, where hundreds are
Bank frauds and bank crises in India is nothing new. It has been an integral part of Indian financial history and in 1913, John Maynard Keynes after surveying the state of banking in the country, wrote in Indian Currency and Finance, “In a country so
He was probably one of the earliest social reformists of India who tried to give equal status to women of Bengal in a lopsided man’s world by preaching and practicing female literacy and much more. But how many of us have even heard of Durga
Feminism, Women Empowerment, Women’s Rights Activist – words that have never registered and every time I see ‘Page 3’ women activists shouting these words from some festival podium or on the streets, I shift my attention to my 60-year-old maid who raised two children after
‘He of all men achieved the highest equilibrium between the diverse forces of thought and was one of the first to sign a treaty of peace between the two forces eternally warring within us, the forces of reason and of faith –’ that’s what French
As the country’s capital goes through a grim communal riot with political blame game and social media full of provocative posts inciting more violence, one name comes up over and over again in our minds today, in this hour of crisis --- Rabindranath Tagore. The
He was a man who practised all world religions and acted as a confluence of thoughts and beliefs that he knew are but different paths leading to the same goal. In today’s India and the world at large when religious wars like centuries old Crusades
Legendary directors Ritwik Ghatak, Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen are not just famous in West Bengal, but they have an equal fan following on the other side of the Padma. No wonder there is a big movement that has started to preserve and restore their
Just after Indian independence till India was declared a Republic, Shri Aurobindo Ghosh had fervently appealed to merge Pondicherry, that was still a French colony with India. He was so desperate in his idea of this merger that he even came out of his seclusion
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was not only a freedom fighter who sacrificed for the cause of free India, but a die-hard nationalist with defiant patriotism that made him an international hero, revered even by global political leaders. During World War II in 1943, Bose visited