At a time when India is going through multiple farmer uprisings, chartering demands for their rights, one is often reminded that Bengal is not new to peasant uprising. And the protests and revolt was so intense during colonial era, that farmers of this land even
The flagship outreach programme of Bengal government on doorstep delivery of its welfare schemes, ‘Duare Sarkar’, crossed the 1 crore registration mark in 15 days from its rollout date. Within four days into the Phase II of the two-month-old programme where government officials are holding multiple
Rabindranath Tagore always believed the source and the cause of all of philosophy and science, be it in the material or spiritual world, are one and the same. Schopenhauer has effectively discussed this fact in his book Principle of Sufficient Reason. Though he has identified
The only man to have created a Bengali nation. Whatever else history remembers about ‘Bongobondhu’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, this fact remains inescapable. Approaching the half-century of the liberation of Bangladesh, a Kolkata publisher has brought out an anthology of writings edited by Suman Bhattacharyya titled
There has been an improved institutional delivery in Bengal in the health sector. The fifth edition of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) released by the Union Health Ministry on Saturday has recorded a significant improvement in maternal and child health in West Bengal. According to the
Left : Professor Sourav Chatterjee and Right : Professor Arindam Ghosh Six eminent scientists, including those from MIT, Harvard and Stanford universities, were awarded the prestigious Infosys Prize 2020 on 2nd December for their outstanding contributions to research and innovation. The annual award includes a pure
For the poet, Gagan Harkara was his peon, the great baul exponent Lalan Fakir was his supplier of betel leaves and one of the palkiwallahs was his Guru -- that’s what Santidev Ghosh writes in his book Rabindrasangit, reflecting upon how important post or letter
That US President Joe Biden’s cabinet includes Kamala Harris is by now a universally known fact. What is not so well known, perhaps, is that the cabinet includes two other members of Indian origin, and one of them is a Bengali. Born in Kolkata, Majumdar earned
Examining the disappearance of the telegram, the pen and the ink pot or even the gramophone record has had a deep connect with Rabindranath Tagore. But how? Tagore had an intimate and inseparable contact with all of these, particularly telegram that he often used to
West Bengal sets a path breaking example in Plasma Therapy research. A majority of researchers are claiming control trial of plasma therapy on Covid-19 patients under the age of 66 is showing encouraging results. When the West Bengal government decided to set up a plasma