Kaaler jatrar dhwani shunite ki pao? Tari rath nityoi udhao, Jagay ichhe antarikshe hridoy spandan, Chakre pishto andharer bokhyo phata tarar krondon…. Can you hear the sounds of the immortal time passing by? The Chariot of Time passes in the vicinity of the deep darkness of the universe creating
“Mr President, Ladies and Gentlemen. I trust that you will accept in advance an apology because I am going to place before you a history of the way in which from a Christian Communalist, I became a Christian Indian Nationalist. It was merely an accident
Meera Devi and Rathindranath Tagore “I am not an escapist. I am going into seclusion because I want to discover myself and give opportunity to any latent impulse that might be waiting development”…. A letter that indeed reflects the subtle pain and frustration of a man who
'Palna' scheme by the West Bengal government To be born unwanted and abandoned to a risky future is the worst fate for a new life. Yet we often come across news of rescuers encountering a day-old infant covered in ants found next to a vat. The
Mahatma Gandhi fell into ‘darkest despair’ on the eve of India's independence in August 1947. Savage fighting spread from Punjab and the North-West Frontier to Eastern Bengal and Bihar. Brutal violence unleashed a year earlier by Muslim hooligans in Calcutta had triggered Hindu counter attacks
At times one wonders, if Sarat babu overdid the cause of women in the Indian society as Rabindranath mentions in Shadharon Meye. But then in the modern context, one realises how relevant this novelist was, in highlighting women’s cause at every step, in every novel.
Swami Vivekananda Only the other day a news hit the headlines --- on how a ruckus broke among parents of a reputed city school when a child of ten years had mistakenly shared his non-vegetarian tiffin with a classmate coming from a vegetarian family. The immediate
India is free but she has not achieved unity, only a fissured and broken freedom. At one time it almost seemed as if she might relapse into chaos of separate states which preceded the British conquest. Fortunately, there has now developed a strong possibility that
On July 8, 2023, the State Government has declared a paid holiday for the Panchayat election. All offices, educational institutions, government institutions, shops, factories, commercial and industrial institutions located in all the 22 districts of West Bengal will remain closed.
Swami Vivekananda died on July 4, 1902, at the age of 39 years, five months and 24 days. Except for a few biographical accounts of his close followers, we do not know much about the last days of his life, or why he died at