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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Vt8Td-YPc 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
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