If, according to the adage, "health is wealth", the key factor for achieving this, is to be happy. Now, happiness is a state of mind – the mind being an unseen force that, according to many, is a Devil. How much ever you try to control the mind, it wavers, dithers, changes, somersaults, and is har...
The Indian Society for Surgery of the Hand (ISSH), a national association of hand surgeons, conducted a ‘Basic Hand Course’ on August 25 and 26, 2018, in association with the Kolkata Arthroscopy and Sports Surgery Society (KASS) at Medica Superspecialty Hospital. Hand injuries are a big componen...
It becomes more and more difficult to specify exactly what is that ‘postmodernism’ is supposed to refer to as the term gets stretched in all directions across different debates, different disciplinary and discursive boundaries, as different factions seek to make it in their own way, using it to ...
Torchbearer of Lucknow Gharana Pandit Swaraj Bhattacharaya spoke to Kaushik Chattapadhyay on behalf of BEIn the early part of the 18th century, Siddhar Khan of Delhi was a very talented tabla player. With his imaginative faculty, he developed a systematic solo performance in tabla. Besides Delhi, po...
Pencaksilat is an indigenous martial art form that originated in Indonesia. The term pencaksilat has been popularised after the Indonesian independence. It is a regular medal sport event in the Asian Games, Asian Beach Games, South Asian Games, and Asian Youth Games and is duly recognised by t...
Doctors at Narayana Super-speciality Hospital (NSH), Howrah performed the first Extracorporeal Radiotherapy (ECRT) case in Eastern India on July 19, 2018. The cancer affected bone was taken out of the body for high intensity radiotherapy and then re-implanted post treatment. In ECRT radiation is giv...
Nabendu Bhattacharya is a prominent Ghazal singer, music educator and composer of the contemporary generation of Indian Light Classical Musicians. When he was a toddler his mother used to switch on the radio to keep him quiet while she went about her chores. He guesses, somehow this was his introduc...
The Union Government has taken cognizance of this matter and it stands committed to reducing road accidents by 50% by 2020. The Ministry has taken a number of steps to prevent such road accidents, including the approval of a national road safety policy which outlines various measures such as promoti...
The challenge of finding a permanent cure for the disease has been continuing for some time now. Medical sciences have been researching for cures that could eradicate the disease but the level of molecular intricacy is still not quite solvable. The treatment of cancer also depends highly on the stag...
Modern life, whatever it means, has made us strive for more. All of us have this innate desire to progress and grow in our professions, careers, and businesses and acquire more fame, wealth, land and accolades. Although growth may be a noble mission, we may get carried away and cross the thin line w...