Society / Personality
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
Famous physician Dr Nilratan Sircar took up medicine to know cause of his m...
Remembering him on his birth anniversary
Rammohan Roy -- visionary who cleansed atrocious Hindu customs against wome...
From stopping Sati to supporting female education
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
‘World will come to know the essence of India through the writings of Aur...
On Aurobindo Ghosh’s birth anniversary
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
Dukoribala Devi – First female revolutionary from Bengal to be booked und...
Favourite ‘Mashima’ for revolutionaries
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