Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar –Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay (1820-1891) was one of the key figures of India’s renaissance in the nineteenth century. He worked wholeheartedly for women’s empowerment andprosperity. He was an academician, a thinker and a scholar par excellence. It was due his vast er...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi deserves to be congratulated for taking a courageous and much needed step in the direction of scrapping the University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and for putting in place the higher education regulator i.e. Higher Educat...
The Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan advised the journalists in a meeting in Delhi the other day to avoid ‘unpleasant truths’ and write only ‘nice things’. True, today’s paper is full of news ofviolence, corruption, communal hatred, terrorism, and rape. You hardly find a ‘positive’ st...
“Do not go with the flow. Be the flow” - Elif Safak from her book The Forty Rules of Love”A chance buy of Amanda Ripley’s “The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way” at Boston’s Logan Airport and the subsequent eighteen hours that I spent devouring it, changed something...
Dr. Sankar Prasad MukherjeeArybhatta was an ancient mathematician and astronomer of India. He was born in Pataliputra (Magadh) in Bihar. Some opine that he may have been born in Kerala. Arya is a south Indian name whereas the name Bhatta has a north Indian origin. Whatever be the controversies...
It took a long time for journalism to enter into the portals of the university. Journalists have been described as ‘scatter-brained’ and ‘muck rakers’ by western scholars and in the late nineteenth century, only one or two American universities had agreed to allow jou...
The Maternity Benefit Amendment Bill, 2016, was passed by the Lok Sabha on March 9, a day after International Women’s Day. It extended the maternity leave from 12 weeks to 26 weeks for women employed in the organised sector. The Bill was introduced in Rajya Sabha last year.The Bill will be p...
Education –Shiksha - in its real meaning and essence is the process of manifestation and development of virtues one already possesses within. Further, this process on the basis of virtues leads one to a holistic development of one’s personality –eventually making one’s life meaningful....
Right after the birth of her daughter, the life of Angura Bibi, a resident of Bahrampur, Murshidabad, West Bengal, changed. She was subjected to domestic violence. Physical abuse became a daily order. And finally, her husband and inlaws poured acid on her. Suffering extreme pain, being physically de...
Dancing was always their passion. They followed their heart and made it their profession. Two friends, Sangeeta and Vineeta who met in dance school, started their dance academy SangVi in January 2000. It has gradually evolved into one of the finest dance academies in Kolkata.The academy that s...
