The first Indian Air Force pilot to get a Distinguished Flying Cross was a Bengali! – GetBengal story
Jumbo Majumdar was listed among the top 12 Allied pilots by LIFE magazine during WWII
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Back when Rev. Lal Behari Dey’s novel won Darwin’s heart – GetBengal story
An eminent scholar, from a distant land far across the sea, sent a congratulatory note to a humble author in India via his publisher. The book, written by an unheard-of author, had impacted the reader so intensely that he dashed a letter to the publisher
Rabindranath Tagore’s niece controlled their estate on horseback with a gun! – GetBengal story
The Tagore family has long been the focus of public curiosity. Like its men, the women of this illustrious family have had a great and enduring influence on the life and people of Bengal. The women of the Jorasanko Tagore family were at the forefront
Bina Das, the fearless 21-years-old who asserted rebellion against British Raj – GetBengal story
Bina Das: West Bengal's Revolutionary Force for Indian Independence “My object was to die and if I had to die, I wanted to do it nobly, fighting against this despotic system of government which has kept my country in perpetual subjection to its infinite shame and
Ganapati Chakraborty: the Indian pioneer of professional magic was a Bengali – GetBengal story
Ganapati Chakraborty, the first practitioner of modern magic in Bengal In ancient times, Indian magicians were often considered workers of legitimate mystical miracles, not simply entertainers. Just like Jean-Eugène Robert-HoudinI, who is considered a pioneer of 19th-century modern entertainment magic as a theatrical art form, Ganapati
Have we forgotten the great historian Amales Tripathi? – GetBengal story
Author Amales Tripathi Eminent academician and author Professor Tapan Raychaudhuri in his book Bangalnama says, “Many people speak of his (Nirad Chandra Chowdhury's) erudition and extraordinary memory. I have seen more erudition than him in Bengalis like Sukhmoy Chakraborty, Ravi Dasgupta and Amales Tripathi.” Eminent historian
Ramakrishna Paramhansa – Man beyond Religion – GetBengal story
Anita Bose is a well-known researcher and academician of South-East Asia and an ardent follower of Ramakrishna Paramhansa. She has delivered lectures at various Ramakrishna Mission events including Ramakrishna Mission, Golpark ‘Rain-water never stands on high ground, but runs down to the lowest level. So also
Rammohan Roy, a feminist ahead of his time – GetBengal story
While he defended Hinduism against the hostile criticism of the missionaries, he sought to purge Hinduism of the abuses that had crept into it. That was Raja Rammohan Roy in one sentence. He warmly advocated the introduction of western science and technology into the educational
Captain Suresh Biswas, the Bengali who became a Brazilian – GetBengal story
“The grand Continental menagerie, which occupies the center of the Hall, and which is open to all, contains a really good collection of animals, birds and reptiles, including a group of African lions, amongst which a clever Hindoo lion tamer performs at intervals.” Thus reads a
Tracing the life and times of Bengal’s pioneer entomologist who created a science legacy – GetBengal story
How conveniently we have forgotten the pioneering entomologist and naturalist, Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya. Born on August 1, 1895, in Lonesing, Fardipur district (now in Bangladesh), Bhattacharya was a very bright student who passed his Matriculation examination with a first class but owing to acute financial