"The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats." ― Ernest Hemingway. Since time immemorial, human beings have taken to water to survive, to explore, to travel, to trade, to irrigate, even to do household chores. For
Somendra Mohan Ghosh is a well-known environmentalist and green technologist Citizens of Kolkata seem to be indifferent to the city’s critical health condition as it gasps painfully for fresh air. Kolkata is endowed with diverse and distinctive traditional water bodies. They support large human populations and
Birla Industrial and Technological Museum Driving past Kolkata’s Birla Industrial and Technological Museum (BITM) on what is Gurusaday Road today, not many would probably wonder about its origins, but for those who do, the name of architect Nundlal Guin ought to be important. This is because
Howrah is often considered to be one of the most polluted cities of India, so much so that residents of different parts of the city suffer from respiratory ailments. Being an industrial city with multiple polluting factories and units, the air over Howrah is not
It was a day just after Dolyatra this year when Raja Das of Kolkata decided to do the unthinkable and climb the treacherous Gojaburu Hills of Purulia without using any ropes or other rock climbing instruments needed to scale such a difficult hill. He did
Pinaki Narayan Maitra, a resident of Deshbandhu Para, Siliguri, made a name for himself by participating in Taekwondo (a form of Korean martial art) in different parts of the world. What is fascinating is the fame he gained during the Lockdown phase by participating in
In 1911, psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler coined the word ‘autism’ to describe a specific cluster of symptoms that were considered an extension of schizophrenia, manifested as an extreme form of social withdrawal. But it was not until 1980 that autism was classified as a distinct disorder
Have you heard the name of Prashanta Chandra? Perhaps not. But this middle-aged man is a familiar face in Mohanpur town of Danton Block, West Midnapore. Even government officials working in Danton Block Development Office (BDO) or the Officer-in-Charge and his subordinate officers of the
When Rabindranath Tagore visited Russia, he was accompanied by a few from his family. One of them was Saumyendranath, the grandson of his elder brother Dwijendranath Tagore. Saumyendranath Tagore is considered to be one of the pioneers of the communist movement in India and was
Piyali Basak is a gritty young lady, a brave woman with determination writ large on her counte-nance. This mountaineer from Chandernagore has several exploits under her belt. In moun-taineering parlance, those who climb peaks above 8,000m are accorded special stature and are called ‘eight-thousander’. Basak