First day of the Constituent Assembly. In the first row (from left), Dr B.R. Ambedkar, B.G. Kher, Vallabhai Patel and K.M. Munshi Mono Mohan Das, Arun Chandra Guha, Lakshmi Kanta Maitra, Mihir Lal Chattopadhyay, Satish Chandra Samanta, Suresh Chandra Majumdar, Upendranath Barman, Prabhudayal Himatsingka, Basanta Kumar
This year marks Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s 125th birth anniversary, which everyone knows. It is most gratifying, though in a way surprising, that many of his countrywomen and countrymen not only remember him today as a person of history. But after all these years, he
As part of Swami Vivekananda’s birth anniversary, GB carries a 3-part-series on Swamiji as the humanist, spiritual leader and a socialist, who could vociferously relegate to the background, Gods of his own religion, for the greater cause of his country. In an era when India
As part of Swami Vivekananda’s birth anniversary, GB carries a 3-part-series on Swamiji as the humanist, spiritual leader and a socialist, who could vociferously relegate to the background, Gods of his own religion, for the greater cause of his country. In an era when India
As a part of Swami Vivekananda’s birth anniversary GB carries a 3-part-series on Swamiji as the humanist, spiritual leader and a socialist, who could vociferously relegate to the background, Gods of his own religion, for the greater cause of his country. In an era when
“We don’t have functional clothes; the moment we embark on some work, our clothes are the first to be discarded.A lot of planning goes into making a dress for an individual. How a colour-coordinated dress is made to suit the colour of a girl’s hair,
In the eleventh and penultimate episode of ‘The Anita Dialogues’, the discussion revolves around the many books and films about Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. The Anita Dialogues is a series of monthly conversations with Netaji’s daughter Dr Anita Bose Pfaff, aired on YouTube and conducted
This is the incredible story of Ratna Chakraborty, a 70-plus, forgotten soldier of the Bangladesh War of Liberation (Muktijuddho), and how a sustained campaign by one Bangladeshi news portal has helped restore her honour and dignity. And on Bijay Dibas today, the day when Pakistan
How has Indian cinema treated Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose? This is the topic for the December 12 edition of 'The Anita Dialogues', a series of monthly conversations with Netaji's daughter Dr Anita Bose Pfaff, aired on YouTube and conducted by Sampriti, an organisation of Bengalis
More people were killed in the Bengal Famines of 1770 and 1943 than the number of Jews killed by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime. But since there is no special day of remembrance for them, today, Human Rights Day, is as good an occasion as any