Mental health seems to be the buzzword today with negative thoughts and feelings surrounding all and depression skyrocketing. Psychoanalysis and understanding human nature with its deep apprehensions has turned most important. In the early 20th-century a Bengali physician had become the first South Asian psychoanalyst,
There was something about Dolly Roy, the first woman tea taster of India, as well as about her quaint shop Dolly’s – The Tea Shop in a corner of South Kolkata’s Dakshinapan Shopping Centre. She was a trendsetter in her own rights, way back in
Orphans who survived the Bengal famine of 1943 If you run a Google search for Sasank Sekhar De, chances are you won’t come up with too many relevant results. That is, if you are among the handful who still know his name. Because not even his
There is a common tradition in India of naming places after well-known and successful personalities from different walks of life. The Eastern Railways has followed the custom and there are a large number of stations dedicated in the memory of successful sons of the soil.
Local women of Takipara or ‘Mukto-Gram’ village have been cultivating pearls in the ponds in Dumurdaha-Takipara area since 2016. Initiated by the Government of West Bengal under the guidance of the Hon’ble CM Mamata Banerjee, the project, ‘Augmentation of Alternative Livelihood Options of Fishermen through Comprehensive Development (Integrated Farming) in
Both January and February are special months for a very special Kolkata landmark, so we figured this was a good time to put this article out. The landmark in question is what we know as Alipore Zoo, though officially it ought to be called Zoological
He came, he saw and he changed the course of India’s history in the 6th century BC. He was the monarch of Kapilavastu, Shakyasingha. He spent 29 years of his life as Siddartha Gautam before his Mahabinishkramana, when he gave up all worldly pleasures, his
Meghnad Saha – the scientist with a vision was also a political activist He was one of the most prominent architects of modern science in India. He was a physicist of international repute and his theory of thermal ionization was a path-breaking dimension in astrophysics.
In the bustling academic milieu of the University of Chicago, amidst the plethora of cultural clubs that dot its landscape, one club stands out for its fervent dedication to preserving and promoting the rich tapestry of Bengali culture. Kheyal is a club that carries the
It is most unlikely that people are familiar about a place in Bengal called Gobordanga. It is also unlikely that anyone ever heard of P.N. Bose, the man who pioneered India’s mineral excavations and helped the TATA group to set up their Jamshedpur township. But