Legacy at Risk
The threatened demolition of Satyajit Ray’s ancestral home in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, is not merely a matter of bricks and mortar.
The threatened demolition of Satyajit Ray’s ancestral home in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, is not merely a matter of bricks and mortar.
Despite all the reverential mythification and mystification of Gurukul and studious, scholarly students, Plato’s academy and Socratic dialogue, literary representations of schools and teachers have often opted for satire, irony, humour and outright abrasive criticism.
Hectic work is on to complete the stage opposite Victoria House where the annual Martyrs’ Day meeting on 21 July will be held.
Fake currency notes of around Rs 9 crore were seized at Dhamakhali ferry-ghat by police on Friday night. Two persons Debobrata Chakraborty and Sirajuddin Molla were arrested in connection with the incident.
Though local minister of East Burdwan district, Swapan Debnath has termed it as a routine exercise of the government, the BJP, CPM and the Congress have raised questions about retaining a person as vice-chairperson, who has been convicted in a murder case and is presently on bail after court orders.
Kirti Jha Azad, Member of Parliament for the Burdwan–Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency and former cricketer, has launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of spreading falsehood during his speech in Durgapur yesterday.
Thirteen dead elephants! Seven deadly train collisions and 17 years of apathy. The forests of Bengal’s Junglemahal are fast turning into graveyards for elephants, as steel tracks cut ruthlessly through their ancient migratory paths.
In a move aimed at incentivising freight transport and reducing logistics costs, the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has announced a waiver of the busy season charge (BSC) for August.
On the very day the Prime Minister declared India’s firm resolve to completely halt infiltration from Bangladesh, the East Burdwan district administration identified a couple, who allegedly entered West Bengal illegally from the neighbouring country a decade ago.
This romance between a Sanskrit teacher and a French tutor in Aap Jaisa Koi is Netflix’s atonement for recent sins.
