From 1881 to 1886, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay lived in Howrah as he used to work there. As per records his address was 212 Panchanantala Road. This was also the house where many well-known personalities including Rabindranath Tagore came. To honour Bankim Chandra’s presence in Howrah,
The famous Tarapith Kali Temple is undergoing massive change and turning environment friendly. The kitchen and office have been recently dismantled and will be now built in a spacious way to be run on Solar Energy. For all these years the Bhog at the temple
It is surprising, but it is true that illegal immigration from different neighbouring area, specially from East Bengal or East Pakistan had afflicted Assam from colonial times. Since a majority of these immigrants were Muslims, the influx even changed the demography of Assam. In 1931,
As lynching deaths across the country go on a rise, Bengal government passed a new law in the State Assembly yesterday making it punishable by death penalty. The West Bengal (Prevention and Lynching) Bill 2019 makes lynching punishable by a life long prison term or
Another feather on West Bengal Government’s cap. Bengal’s Health and Family welfare department has won the Skoch Award in the Governance Gold category for its project on ‘Waiting Huts for Pregnant Women.’ The honour was conferred on August 29 in New Delhi. Previously the state
Kiran has just passed her Higher Secondary Examination from a government school in Purulia. But everyone in and around her village of Hutmura knows her as Bengal’s Pad Girl! Along with her studies, she has taken up the daunting task of spreading awareness on menstrual
It was on 8th January 1917 that Rabindranath Tagore gave a lecture at the Oliver Theatre of USA. He spoke on Nationalism. The audience at Lincoln loved his speech so much that they gifted Tagore a printing machine for the students of Santiniketan. The name
Dr Madhumala Chattopadhyay was the first woman anthropologist who became the ‘milae’ (friend) of the Sentinelese tribe of Andamans, who are otherwise known to be extremely hostile. For years, she pursued her study on them and other such tribes of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands,
The Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library (IPPL) and Virasat Art Publication (VAP) jointly commemorated One Hundred Years of Martyrdom at Jallianwala Bagh with a multilingual poets’ meet, Shaam-e-Shahadat at ICCR. The evening’s programme started with the anchor, Ms. Rituparna Khan, introducing the tragic incident that
Princeton University’s Lewis Center for Arts named Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jhumpa Lahiri as the new director of the University’s Program in Creative Writing. Lahiri, a Professor of Creative Writing on the Princeton faculty since 2015, succeeds 2017-19 U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, who has