Be it from West Bengal or Bangladesh, it seems Bengali women are ruling the world’s scientific world. If Nairwita Majumdar from Malda had assisted the 2017 Physics Nobel Prize winner and his team in their path-breaking discovery, NASA research engineer Mahmooda Sultana has bagged the
It is always said Rabindranath Tagore and Sister Nivedita shared a strange relationship, thanks to their religious differences. But what many of us do not know is the kind of mutual respect they had, that helped them get over several differences and come close through
Waves of humanity rising and singing to the tunes of Un’estateitaliana (To Be Number One) across ancient and historical stadiums of Milan, Turin, Rome, Naples. Best of the world’s soccer teams sweating, dribbling, kicking and defending goals on fields to the chant of frenzied mobs.
Padma Vibhushan Vidushi Girija Devi ji, the Queen of Thumri and lovingly addressed as Appaji, will remain a sublime experience of my lifetime. I am not qualified to talk about her supreme talent. Through my interactions with her, I can only express what an affectionate
A secret tunnel has been unearthed under the historic Rajbari plot of Domjur, from where freedom fighter Rashbehari Bose had fled. What is however sad, is this Rajbari had been sold off and the man who bought it, started demolishing the whole structure when the
You must have heard recently about US astrophysicists Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne, jointly winning Nobel Prize for Physics for contribution to the LIGO detector and observation of gravitational waves. What many of you may not know however, is that Nairwita Mazumder, an
This is what Taslima Nasreen had to say about Bhai Phonta: “There are hundreds of patriarchal festivals in India. People are celebrating Bhai Phonta or Bhai Dooj or Bhai Tika or Bhai Beej today. On this day, sisters put a sandalwood paste or a vermilion mark
If you thought your kids are safe by shunning the do-doma or kali patka and taking to fuljhuris, charki and rangmashal, then think twice. The apparently harmless fire crackers are in reality, more harmful. The Supreme Court in 2015,had banned the use of sound-emitting crackers
Remember, how Feluda in Tintoretor Jishu realized the authenticity of a Jesus painting, after he detected a shyama poka on the canvas and questioned if the insect existed during the times when the painting was done? We all must have encountered hordes of these tiny
Often a question is raised as to how Western feminists view Kali. They have attempted to politicize Kali by relating her to the feminist foundational myth, that believes matriarchy was mankind’s natural state, and original religion was a form of nature-based polytheism that related everything