COVID-19 has indeed affected the students across India, but dedicated teachers are trying their level best to impart online lessons to students so that they do not lose or take a backseat in the new academic session. But giving online lessons from rural Bengal is
COVID-19 has pushed the students back home from their classrooms and examination centres. An unprecedented feeling of staying at home in confinement for weeks, far from friends, classmates, teachers and our temple, the schools. This deadly virus is forcing many of us to find ways
Trina Das Gupta teaches English at the senior school level. She is closely associated with one of the premier national examination boards. She conducts workshops in Communicative English in India and abroad. She is Executive Editor of the magazine Kolkata on Wheels and Director of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_NhMrNA-Zs The Hindu College was established on January 20, 1817, exactly 203 years ago and was renamed the ‘Presidency College’ in 1885. Among its celebrated founders and contributors were Raja Ram Mohan Roy, David Hare, Sir. Edward Hyde East (the then Chief Justice of Supreme Court
26th March 2015. A mob attacked the Headmaster of a Metiaburuz Madrasa as his students had sung the National Anthem ‘Jana Gana Mana’ after a school festival. They brutally bashed him up with iron rods. Yet the fundamentalist forces could not stop Kazi Masoom Akhtar
Debarshi Chanda, a pass-out from Jadavpur University has not just made us proud by securing a 100 percentile in CAT, but also by refusing to get into any management course for a plush and cushy job later. Rather, Debarshi will pursue a PhD in Economics
Literature broadens its horizons in Calcutta University as the English post-graduate department goes through a major remodeling. Literature, Music and Films are all forms of art which have existed as separate entities and have often merged and complemented time and again, find its convergence at
Suman Sadhu is an ex-student of Belur Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira The Great Bengal Famine of 1943, had left behind a trail of death and human sufferings. Thousands dying from starvation, lying on the streets of Kolkata, pleading for a handful of boiled rice. From within that
If Rabindra Bharati University’s history is entwined with the erstwhile Jorasanko Thakurbari, that has witnessed birth of Bengal renaissance and stalwarts like Rabindranath Tagore and Abanindranath Tagore, its canteen also has the Thakur tag to it. Out of the four canteens on the RBU campus,
As a child I always loved the smell of old books, that often transported me to the world of dreams, where words bespoke tales of lands that I never travelled through or seas that I never crossed. That rustic unexplained odour, unknowingly became a part