Whiff of mismanagement in Bangiya Sahitya Parishad
The annual general meeting of Bangiya Sahitya Parishad is going to be stormy in view of the sheer mismanagement of the authorities running the organization.
The annual general meeting of Bangiya Sahitya Parishad is going to be stormy in view of the sheer mismanagement of the authorities running the organization.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today said that a country cannot progress with violence and hatred. Mr Gandhi was addressing at English Bazaar Town in Malda this evening.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has asked SSKM Hospital authorities to explore whether songs of Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam can be played in every ward.
The Oxford English dictionary defines ‘Guru’ as a “Hindu spiritual teacher. Also, each of the ten first leaders of the Sikh religion. The word comes from Sanskrit meaning ‘weighty’, ‘grave', hence 'elder, teacher’’. It must be the third sentence of this definition that must have irked Rabindranath Tagore.
Death anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore was observed in the city with due solemnity.
It was an oblique swipe at the Union HRD and Finance ministries, one that has little or no connection with an occasion that is as solemn as Language Day. It was scarcely the occasion for Prof Bidyut Chakraborty to bare his angst against the Centre’s running of the institution.
The Indian Twitter community, in particular, is celebrating the video and sharing it with much pride and comments like "inspiring", "something to behold" etc.
Appropriately enough, the renovation project could well have been initiated in 2013, the centenary year of Tagore's Nobel prize.
Speaking at St Xavier's College on the occasion of Christmas celebration, chief minister Mamata Banerjee today said “I always feel good when I am at St. Xavier's College since my connection with the institution has grown deeper over the years. We must remember that our constitution has several languages that speak of freedom, liberty, equality, justice, love and fraternity. These qualities are further enhanced through human interactions. Without us, interacting with each other, how can these qualities increase? We need to increase them especially in today's time. When I come here, I feel India is a vast and democratic country and its origins lie in ‘Unity in Diversity'. There are varieties of religions, caste, creed and human beings. We all belong to humanity and hence, everybody should learn to love everybody since if we stop loving each other, everything will be lost.”
In the context of the ViceChancellor, Professor Bidyut Chakraborty’s request to the Union home ministry, it is hard not to wonder whether there has been an alarming deterioration of security, that may not be apparent on the face of it.
