Society / Personality
‘Sarkarism’ – Neo-Socialism introduced by Benoy Sarkar during World W...
Sarkarism was an attempt to endow Indian Social Science with a new method and content
By TTW
From the home of a Nobel Laureate: In Amartya Sen’s own words
On Sen's 88th birthday
By Saheli Mitra
India’s first Science Association set up by Mahendralal Sarkar in 19th ce...
On Mahendralal Sarkar's birth anniversary
Dr Nilratan Sircar had taken up medicine to know cause of his mother’s de...
Remembering him on his birth anniversary
Theatre Man Kedarnath Dasgupta bridged India & UK through Oriental producti...
A ‘dreamer of peace’, he believed that art and literature could unify all humans
By Shuvra Dey
Sib Chandra Nundy: The Telegraph Man of India
In 1883, Nundy was awarded with the title of Rai Bahadur
By Shuvra Dey
Why could Bagha Jatin not be the father of our nation?
How Bagha Jatin almost pulled off an 1857 repeat
Bagha Jatin, the freedom fighter who sought to capture Fort William
Thinking of the underrated revolutionary on Independence Day
Dukoribala Devi, first female revolutionary from Bengal to be booked under ...
Favourite ‘Mashima’ for revolutionaries
Tagore too had a biographer- Prabhatkumar Mukhopadhyay
Prabhatkumar founded the Rabindra Parichay Sabha
Kakali Ghosh, the messiah policewoman from Baruipur
Ghosh looks after Anti-Human Trafficking Unit in her sub-division
The man who gave India its first map, and named Meghalaya
In memory of pioneering Bengali geographer S.P. Chatterjee
Gita Chandra – Bengali brave-heart and India’s first female paratrooper...
Gita had para-trooped seven times as part of the training
By TTW
Sonamukhi’s Sohini in US-Biden administration
The US President Joe Biden appointed Bengal’s Sohini Chatterjee
‘To reach a port we must set sail,’ Sonali Banerjee
Story of India’s first female marine engineer
By TTW
Ramnath Biswas – The first Bengali Globetrotter who circumnavigated the g...
The Man with a gypsy soul
By TTW
Economist Jayati Ghosh appointed by the United Nations to a high-level advi...
Bengali scientist help fight economic challenges in a post-Covid world
The Indian tricolour, and the myths behind it
The most widely circulated myth about our flag is that it is based on an idea put forth by Pingali Venkayya
Sumona Guha: The Bengali-American woman in Joe Biden’s administration
A Bengali Woman’s American journey
Deviprasad Roychowdhury: The Maverick Sculptor of the Twentieth century
An artist immortalized through Gandhiji’s “Dandi March” sculpture
By TTW
Khudiram Bose, a name that still defines martyrdom
On his 132nd birthday, a tribute to the boy who fired a nation’s imagination
Bengal’s entrepreneurship idol R.N Mookerjee whose company built Victoria...
Engineer par excellence and entrepreneur
Kolkata’s teacher puts Bengal on international beauty pageant map as Mrs ...
Suparna Mukherjee is the beauty with brains
How Human Rights preacher, the mighty British, tortured 15-year-old Sushil ...
In memory of a forgotten hero
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Tribute to Mother...
Loving and caring soul that is still alive
Birbhum’s Mirati will no more have Pranab Mukherjee during Durga Puja thi...
He who believed Bengal is an assimilation of cultures
Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar – the man who stood by India’s women, centurie...
Even if he died, his legacy should not!
By Shuvra Dey
Dr Sushovan Banerjee who treats poor for Re 1 gets his name in the Guinness...
He has treated the highest number of patients
‘I shall not live to be 40 years old’—How did Swami Vivekananda know ...
Tracing his spiritual thoughts on death
By Saheli Mitra
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis – one of the greatest statisticians of India...
Remembering the genius on Statistics Day
The mathematician from Bengal who was India’s first Election Commissioner...
Sukumar Sen was a genius
On Mother’s Day, freedom fighter Dinesh Gupta’s last letter to his moth...
What did he write and why did he write a letter to his mother?
Krishna Bose is no more! Bengal loses an erudite academician and ex-parliam...
Married to Sisir Bose, she kept Netaji’s legacy alive