Manisha Pailan is an acid attack survivor who belongs to a village in Jaynagar. She was subjected to an acid attack way back in 2015. But the incident could not stop her. She took it as the biggest learning lesson of her life and started
Saheli Mitra delves into the past, bringing forth Swami Vivekananda’s love for non-vegetarian food, at a time, when meat-eaters in India are considered as bigots and ‘food freedom’ as an alien concept. The ever-growing vegetarian brigade of India, who teach their vegetarian children to aggressively bully
He assisted Dr Subhas Mukhopadhyay in using IVF technique to create India’s first and the world’s second test-tube baby, Durga on October 3, 1978. We are talking of Cryobiologist Sunit Mukherjee, who died last week at the age of 89. Here was a man who
The plains of Bengal’s Murshidabad may seem an unlikely place to grow apples, but that’s not an impediment for the district administration from giving it a shot. Around 20 men from Sagardighi in Murshidabad district had migrated to Kashmir, looking for employment. Most of them,
Recently scientists were startled to observe a massive explosion on Sun’s surface. In the scorching upper reaches of the Sun’s atmosphere, a prominence — a large loop of material launched by an eruption on the solar surface — started falling back to the surface of
Deepa and Samapti Mondal are siblings from Ankhola village under Habra’s Kumra gram panchayat. Both completed their graduation and were keen to take up government jobs. They had put their heart and soul to study and crack the competitive examinations required to get a government
Legendary director Ritwik Ghatak is not just famous in West Bengal, but has an equal fan following on the other side of the Padma. Ghatak’s ancestral home is still found in the Rajshahi district of Bangladesh. But last week, the Rajshahi Homoeopathic Medical College and
Howrah is a busy industrial town and the second largest city in West Bengal. It has a distinguished history of more than 500 years. The name Howrah was derived from the word ‘Haor’ for a fluvial swampy lake where water, mud and organic debris accumulate.
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820-1891) was one of the pillars of Bengal Renaissance who continued the social reforms initiated by Raja Rammohan Roy in the early 1800s. Poet Michael Madhusudan Dutta, while writing about Ishwar Chandra said: ‘The genius and wisdom of an ancient sage, the
Budge Budge is an ancient settlement in South 24 Parganas. Not much research has been done about its rich heritage which has witnessed some of the most fascinating events of Indian history including the homecoming of Swami Vivekananda from his Chicago visit in 1897. He