Society / Personality
The first Indian Air Force pilot to get a Distinguished Flying Cross was a ...
Jumbo Majumdar was listed among the top 12 Allied pilots by LIFE magazine during WWII
Back when Rev. Lal Behari Dey’s novel won Darwin’s heart – GetBengal ...
Dey was also the first to collect and publish Folk-Tales of Bengal
By TTW
Rabindranath Tagore's niece controlled their estate on horseback with a gun...
Sudakshina Devi founded the Jwala Prasad Kanya Pathshala and promoted girls’ education through schools in UP
Bina Das, the fearless 21-years-old who asserted rebellion against British ...
Bina Das fired five shots at British Governor Stanley Jackson
Ganapati Chakraborty: the Indian pioneer of professional magic was a Bengal...
Ganapati Chakraborty was India’s first professional magician
By Shuvra Dey
Have we forgotten the great historian Amales Tripathi? - GetBengal story
Amales Tripathi taught us to understand history
By Shuvra Dey
Ramakrishna Paramhansa – Man beyond Religion - GetBengal story
Sri Ramakrishna was a man beyond religion and a philosopher
By Anita Bose
Rammohan Roy, a feminist ahead of his time - GetBengal story
Celebrating the legacy of India’s first social reformer
Captain Suresh Biswas, the Bengali who became a Brazilian – GetBengal sto...
Suresh Biswas was the real-life hero behind Ray’s fictional reference
Tracing the life and times of Bengal’s pioneer entomologist who created a...
Gopal Chandra had to give up college dreams due to poverty
Bibi Roy: From Uttam Kumar’s films to National Award for Rituparno’s se...
Revolutionizing Bengali cinema, Bibi Roy’s contributions to art and costume design
By Arpan Ghosh
Hariprabha Takeda: First Indian Woman in Japan and her famous travelogue - ...
Listing - Hariprabha Basu Mallick was the first Indian woman to set foot in Japan
By TTW
India’s first Science Association set up by Mahendralal Sarkar in 19th ce...
Mahendralal Sarkar supported women’s education in nineteenth-century India
World’s first female language martyr: Kamala Bhattacharya - GetBengal sto...
Silchar Public School Road was renamed Kamala Bhattacharya Road in her honour
By Simon Roy
Kamala Bhattacharya: World’s first female language martyr - GetBengal sto...
Bengalis have always fought for their language, from Dhaka to Barak Valley
By Simon Roy
India’s first female mechanical engineer who changed the face of the indu...
Ila made history as the first woman engineer to work in an Ordnance Factory on a production floor
Sukumar Sen, unsung hero of Indian democracy - GetBengal story
Sukumar Sen was also the first Vice-Chancellor of Burdwan University
Sushil Sen, the teenager who sparked a plot to kill a magistrate - GetBenga...
Sushil Sen was a brilliant student throughout his life
Kadambini Ganguly, first female doctor from Bengal who fought patriarchy - ...
Kadambini revolutionised Bengal’s healthcare by introducing Western medicine to women
Dolly's tea shop redefined cafe culture in Kolkata - GetBengal story
Roy's mission was to elevate Kolkata’s street tea into a world-class experience
The Bengali scientist whose efforts pioneered India’s midday meal scheme ...
India’s Midday Meal Scheme is one of its largest nutrition programmes
India's first railway station was named after a Bengali woman – GetBengal...
Bela Bose led daring operations for the INA during the freedom movement
The man without whom Alipore Zoo would never have been – GetBengal story
Ram Brahma Sanyal, a name almost nobody remembers today
Kaantha: Kunsang Chhopel: The Man who trains indigenous dogs in the Dooars
For the first time, the Himalayan breeds are being trained by Kunsang
The Forgotten Tagore Sisters: The Untold Stories of Binayani and Sunayani T...
The residents of Thakurbari played a significant role in 'The Bengal Renaissance
By TTW
Dr. R.G. Kar: A visionary who made healthcare available to all – GetBenga...
This year marked the 172nd birth anniversary of Dr. R.G. Kar
By Shuvra Dey
Hemantabala, Rabindranath Tagore’s dear Penpal – GetBengal Story
Hemantabala refused to be confined to the Andarmahal
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee: Legacy of a conflicted ideologue - GetBengal story...
In 2004, Wipro chairman Azim Premji declared Bhattacharjee India’s best Chief Minister
The daring train robbery and the Bengali nationalist mastermind – GetBeng...
Kakori is a small, nondescript village in Uttar Pradesh
Digambari Devi set an example of women empowerment – GetBengal story
Digambari Devi was only 9 years old when she was married to Dwarkanath Tagore
By TTW
P.T. Nair, the Barefoot Historian of Kolkata is no more – GetBengal story...
Explore the life of P.T. Nair, the Kolkata chronicler
By Saheli Mitra
Girindranath, the lesser-known Tagore who was creatively crazy! – GetBeng...
Girindranath Tagore was the uncle of Rabindranth Tagore
Jack Preger, the street doctor who took care of Kolkata’s poorest for 40 ...
This World Red Cross Day, let's remember The Pavement Doctor of Calcutta
Save Kolkata’s Trams- mission by a retired biochemist
Kolkata boasts of India's only city with operational trams
By TTW
The Life of Abadhoot- Rebel and Recluse to become a bestselling author —G...
Dulal Mukhopadhyay's transition into the enigmatic Abadhoot
By TTW
Are Bengalis 'Army Shy?' The question persists - GetBengal story
Army veterans give their views on the perception
By TTW
Detective Deepak Chatterjee & Swapan Kumar: Poster Boys of Bengal
Churning out detective stories by the dozen was only one of Swapan Kumar’s daily chores
By Shuvra Dey
Blindness could not stop Sabita Haldar from becoming the Howrah Station ann...
Sabita lost her vision when she rejected the proposal of a young man
Monika Santra – the village girl matching her dance steps to dream big - ...
Under the tutelage of Shubhankar Ghosh, Moni honed her skills in classical dance
Tamali Saha cracks IAS in first attempt at the age of only 23 - GetBengal s...
Her extraordinary journey serves as a beacon of inspiration for aspiring individuals all across the nation
The fascinating journey of Hindol Roy, the antique gadget collector - GetBe...
Roy is a resident of College Para in Siuri, Birbhum district
Teachers and doctors across Bengal, serving the society for 1 rupee or less...
These teachers and doctors are the hope and inspiration of the present generation and their vision must be taken forward by their disciples.
Kolkata matchbox collector Srijan De Sarkar depicts history of matchboxes -...
It was his father Gopi De Sarkar whose love for matchboxes ignited this remarkable passion in him
First Land mapping of India started in Bengal by none other than Radhanath ...
Radhanath was one of the first two Indians to read Isaac Newton's Principia
By TTW
London University confers D.Litt. on Mughal art historian Asok Kumar Das - ...
Dr. Das wrote ‘Matir Neechay Itihash’ that was published in the Magh, 1369
By Mouni Mondal
Maya invites you to an adda with Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, a Bengali tycoon li...
Chandra Shekhar Ghosh is MD & CEO of Bandhan Bank
The voice behind Sealdah station announcements is that of the visually impa...
Paritosh relies on his exceptional memory and auditory skills to remember and recall train details accurately
Scientist Bikash Sinha, the man who dared to defy political clout for the c...
He was a member of the Visva-Bharati University's Academic Council since 2002
By TTW
London University honours historian from Bengal - GetBengal story
Das was born in Garbeta, Medinipur district, and was mentored by legendary historian Nihar Ranjan Ray
Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar – the man who spoke up for the Bengal daughters ...
Even if he died, his legacy should not!
By Shuvra Dey
Hamiruddin Middya from Bankura village clenched the prestigious Sahitya Aka...
His first book, ‘Azrailer Dak’ was published in 2018
The Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, was founded by the father of I...
Remembering the genius on National Statistics Day
“Mohammad Yunus of South Bengal” Madhuri Ghosh elevating rural lives
Madhuri Ghosh was the headmistress at Bangalpur Jyotirmoyee Prathamik Balika Vidyalaya
Septuagenarian curd seller Sameer Bhattacharjee is an inspiration for all: ...
Sameer Bhattacharjee is in full control of his life’s steering
By Shuvra Dey
Centurion statistician who worked from Calcutta gets highest International ...
The award, worth $80,000, will be handed over to C.R. Rao at the World Statistical Congress
Parimal Ray, the one-man institution linking Kolkata and Calcutta
The octogenarian sees himself as a preservationist rather than a collector
Think you know all about our tricolour? Think again!
Pingali Venkayya is just one of the myths associated with India’s flag
A martyr at 19, the man who almost killed Charles Tegart
Gopimohan single-handedly attempted to assassinate Charles Tegart
Remembering on her birth anniversary, Ma Sarada – goddess or a mere mothe...
Ma Sarada’s life story remained practically unknown
Khudiram’s love for revolvers as depicted by close aide Hemchandra Kanung...
Kanungo first met Khudiram on one of Medinipur’s quiet roads
By TTW
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. A tribute to Moth...
Loving and caring soul that is still alive
Letters to Remember: Celebrating Rishi Aurobindo’s 150th anniversary thro...
Rishi Aurobindo was one of the first Indians who received education in England
Dr Sushovan Banerjee who treated the poor for Re 1 is no more
He was a general physician who had been treating patients for the past 57 years for just Re 1
Bengal's Gita Chandra, India’s first female paratrooper
Gita had para-trooped seven times as part of the training
By TTW
Nilima Ibrahim, a pioneer in women emancipation
‘Ami Birangana Bolchhi’ recounts the struggle and survival of the seven rape victims
By Shuvra Dey
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, one of the greatest Indian statisticians
Remembering the genius on Statistics Day
Have we forgotten the legacy of Girindrasekhar Bose?
Regarded as the Father of Asian Psychology, Dr Bose was an institution himself
By TTW
Upendrakishore Raychaudhuri, the boy who refused a zamindari
A tribute on the pioneering polymath’s 160th birthday
Documenting Bengal’s water craft – exclusive interview with the 'Boatma...
Swarup Bhattacharya has been researching boats for 25 years
By Shuvra Dey
Nundlal Guin, the architect who built some of Kolkata’s most famous landm...
A look back at one of Bengal’s preeminent architects
Saumyendranath Tagore, the Communist of the Tagore household
He is considered one of the pioneers of the communist movement in India
Ramnath Biswas, the man with a gypsy soul
The first Bengali Globetrotter who circumnavigated the globe on his bicycle
By TTW
Asia’s first human dissection was by a Bengali doctor in colonial Calcutt...
His path-breaking work has opened up a new vista in modern medical studies
By TTW
Six Bengali women, and the mountain they named Lalana
In 1970, three women from Kolkata scaled an unknown peak in Himachal
‘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
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
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
Economist Jayati Ghosh appointed by the United Nations to a high-level advi...
Bengali scientist help fight economic challenges in a post-Covid world
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
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
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