Her spine was bent like the first bracket. Let alone going out, 16-year-old Debashmita (name changed) even had a difficult time trying to put on her clothes every day and had no other alternative but to shed tears daily out of the pain she suffered
It was in the 1950s when Dr Sambhu Nath De, a Calcutta-based scientist, brought in a silent revolution in the world of medical science. It was during this time when he discovered the cholera toxin. “De’s clinical observations led him to the bold thought that
In an age when elderly parents are being abandoned, neglected, beat up or even thrown out of homes by their children, one Kolkata man has been working relentlessly to provide daily meals to more than 300 old persons, who have no one to help. And
At a MIT press meet yesterday, Indian-American Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee spoke on the current slowdown of Indian Economy and urged the government to make policies which work and not policies which they imagine will work. He even cited recent survey datas which are being
It is indeed a great news for the whole of Bengal as Abhijit Banerjee and his wife Esther Duflo along with Michael Kremer were awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo became the
He is often referred to as the prodigy of Amartya Sen. And today Abhijit Binayak Bandopadhyay indeed makes his teacher proud by winning the Economics Nobel Prize. Incidentally Bandopadhyay's professor Amartya Sen also won the Economics Nobel in 1998 and his legacy continues. Abhijit is a US
In an age when mid-day meals given to students of different government schools across the country have raised hue and cry for their lack of proper nutrition, one school in Nadia has set an example for sure. Not just an example, rather a solution as
We probably all have read in books how Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar studied under street Gas Lights. But someone doing the same in 21st century Howrah, near Kolkata, is unbelievable. However, Suchorita of Howrah’s Bangaal Para is one such example. She is seen every night sitting under
Lakshmi Puja in Bengal is not a mere successor to Durga Puja celebrations or worshipping of the Goddess of wealth. Rather, in Bengal it is all about regional identity and defines the vast chasm that practically divided the Bangaal from Ghoti, the Barendra from Rarh,
Imagine an Indian woman in the ‘80s overcoming all fear of the unknown and travelling to the freezing Antarctica? Yes, that was an era when Indian women hardly took up demanding jobs, let alone go on extreme adventure trips. But Sudipta Sengupta, who was a