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
Sir Rajendranath Mookerjee, who was an engineer and also an idol of Entrepreneurship, something Bengalis are always thought to be averse to, was a pioneer industrialist of Bengal. He is also father and father in law to Kolkata’s own steel baron Sir B N Mookerjee
The combination of beauty and brains of dusky Bengali brunettes have always been raved by the global audience and what started as Sushmita Sen’s dream walk as Miss Universe in 1994 gave wings to many aspirants to test the waters and explore a potential career
In January 2004, Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi had proposed to the United Nations for an International Day of Non-Violence and he suggested October 2, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi to be declared as The International Day of Non-Violence. Since the UN declaration, Gandhi’s birthday
‘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.
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
Four years ago, a well-known media house initiated a unique campaign as a global crusade to promote inclusion of women from all strata – from widows to prostitutes in the Bengali ritual of Sindoor khela during Durga Puja. The move was aimed at changing the
Octogenarian Dr Sushovan Banerjee is a physician from Bolpur, better known as ‘Ek Takar Daktar’ (one rupee doctor) for treating poor patients for just a rupee. Can you imagine? He is a general physician who has been treating patients for the past 57 years. Last
Swami Vivekananda attained Maha-Samadhi on July 4, 1902, at the age of 39. By then he had lived life on his own terms and was ready for death. Vivekananda’s death was not an episode, it was almost a journey and the manner in which he
Mother, Though I know you will come to visit me tomorrow early in the morning, yet I couldn’t help but write this letter to you. You might be thinking, I prayed to Almighty for mercy, but He did not pay heed to my prayers. God must