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
Reports are doing rounds that Bollywood star Salman Khan has gifted a house to Ranu Mondal, the beggar-singer from Krishnanagar, who became a huge social media sensation for her voice that many say matches Lata Mangeshkar. The house is said to worth Rs 55 lakh!
You no more have to feel guilty of killing animals while eating that mutton or chicken next time! IIT Guwahati scientists have invented meat in their laboratory and have also applied for patent. Professor Biman Mondal, of Bioscience and Bio-engineering department of IIT Guwahati, led
The Central Government announced today that it will rename India’s longest road tunnel called Chenani-Nashri tunnel as Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Tunnel. Incidentally this is a state-of-the-art tunnel on Jammu Srinagar highway. It was in Kashmir that Shyama Prasad Mukherjee died under mysterious circumstances. He was
She had joined Kolkata Port Trust as Lady Trainee Officer in the Marine Section in 1992. This itself was a history scripted as Port Trust for the first time appointed two lady officers in the same year. Sarbari Das survived the grueling work, the other
As Chandrayan II has reached close to the moon, it has started sending new images of the moon surface to the Earth. The recent images show a series of craters on the moon. These are called impact craters and the photographs have been taken by
Scientists of the Biotechnology Department of Burdwan University have successfully recycled moss that grows in paddy fields to paper. This environment-friendly paper is a recycled product and hence will help remove weeds and moss from rice fields in a nature-friendly manner. Usually the moss that