‘India has always been my canvas.’ But, on every Durga Puja, no matter which part of the world he was in, Pranab Mukherjee’s heart always yearned to go back to his motherland. For him Durga Puja was homecoming to his village in Mirati of Birbhum.
This is a school that has produced some of the best scientists, dramatists, authors and sports personalities of the world. From Acharya Jagadish Bose to playwright Girish Ghosh to the grandmaster Dibyendu Barua, Hare School is one of the oldest schools of Kolkata. In the year
From teaching Political Science at Kolkata’s Vidyasagar College in the 1960s to entering Rashtrapati Bhavan as India’s 13th President in 2012, Bharat Ratna Pranab Mukherjee some-how made the extraordinary journey look easy. In between, he took in such crucial Central portfolios as Finance (when he
You can now see Babu, the Chimpanzee playing pranks alone or even the elephants having their morning shower, sitting at home. Animal lovers will now get a chance every day to see their favourite animals live on Facebook twice. Same with Darjeeling’s Padmaja Naidu Zoo.
Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have uncovered a novel drug target, a protein called PPP1R1B, that stops the deadly spread or metastatic growth of pancreatic cancer. Published recently in Gastroenterology, the findings are a first step towards a potential treatment for one
Not many are familiar with Deulpur, a small, sleepy village in Panchla Block in Howrah district. But this very hamlet, surrounded with lush greenery and ponds, was once the hub of polo ball manufacturing which were exported to UK, US and other countries. The Baugs,
He lives in the shallow lakes of faraway North America but has landed up in a Bengal village almost 13,000 km away. No one knows how he arrived – at least he did not travel by air, but yes, he flew across the clouds and
Those who follow the sport of rugby (not a very large number in India yet, sadly), will know of the Six Nations Championship. For the uninitiated, this is the annual international men’s rugby union competition between England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, and Wales. Such trophies
On January 26, 2015, India’s 66th Republic Day, women marching contingents of Army, Navy and Air Force debuted in the national parade at Rajpath in New Delhi. Then in 2018, an all women bikers’ team of the Border Security Force (BSF) had made its debut.
At times I feel sad that many Table Tennis players of today have not even heard of Rupa Banerjee (nee Mukherjee), an exceptional Table Tennis player and an asset to India. She was often called the ‘Golden Girl’ of Bengal and was a great motivator