There’s this thing about memories. It can be handed down to sons and daughters, friends and relatives. To strangers even, on monotonous train journeys. And
When handwritten letters were the order of the day, some men took all the pains of emulating a good handwriting.
nature’s silence alone restores mental and physical balance like none other. But far away from these natural surrounds where most of humanity is cooped up
Priyanath Mukhopadhyay (1855-1947) was a real-life police officer who published First Person accounts of his exploits.
His songs bore the marks of his appreciation for the Hindustani classical music. It was particularly explicit when he described the ragas in a romantic
The University of Illinois has played an integral role in Visva-Bharati’s history of pioneering scientific experimentation in agriculture as part of Tagore’s ideas.
Film adaptations of Tagore’s works have also made their mark on the Irish mind. A review of the film Charulata while applauding the heroine Madhavi
Inception In 1921 Leonard K Elmhirst had just graduated from the Cornel University. The young British man, was ruminating over his future course when he
That is how Rathi settled down to the life of a skilled gentleman farmer and continued to apply his knowledge usefully in an experimental farm...
Stories which are short enough are called short stories. We love reading them because of their brevity, their ability to convey a lot within a
Tagore's paintings are the art of infinite probabilities, born out of an unplanned journey of a decade.
One was his determination to break out of the isolation imposed as much by the Indian past as by colonial rule. The other was in
Shyamal Dutta Ray is an Indian artist who belonged to the Bengal school of art. His daughter Haimanti remembers him as an artist and a
It was a beautiful autumn day in Jim Thorpe, a small archaic town in Pennsylvania. There was a nip in the air.
Renowned econometrician Anil K Bera recounts his first encounter with Nobel Laureate economist Prof Jim Heckman.
Atul Bose was an artist of the European academic school who is most strongly remembered for his portraits. The anti-British nationalist movement of the early
