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
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
Rabindra Sarobar World Soil Day is not something most ordinary people would know about. However, it has been internationally observed on December 5 since 2002. The United Nations website explains that this day is “a means to focus attention on the importance of healthy soil and
In 2000 I joined the Agriculture and Training Centre in Phulia that was established in 1952. Everything was in place as per infrastructure, from training to village community service. Unfortunately, nothing worked. I was taken aback to realise that neither any training took place, nor
Bengal-born Piali Ray is Director of Sampad, a leading national agency for the development of South Asian Arts and Heritage, based in Birmingham. Piali was conferred an OBE in 2002, falling in line with stalwarts like JK Rowling and Keira Knightly. She was also given
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nei91fXjlb4 Two years ago, Kolkata Police came up with a unique concept they called ‘Tejaswini’. The result: on May 19, 2018, a total of 156 women of every shape and size, and varying degrees of fitness, roughly ranging in age from 15 to 40, gathered at
August 11, 1908, is the day Khudiram Bose was hanged by the British-Indian administration. For the attempted assassination of senior British official Douglas Kingsford. The would-be assassin was just 18, one of India’s youngest armed revolutionaries to die at the hands of the British. The irony
IHow does it feel when the State Government comes knocking at your doors, to help you with a variety of social schemes that will benefit you all? Well, the feeling is that of being pampered and a sense of relief, specially in times of COVID-19
Those were the colonial days when British settlers were obsessed with transforming native Calcutta into swanky London. The year was 1923. One day, a local named Raj Chandra Das was returning home when he chanced upon a dog pouncing on a goat and attacking it