Shantiniketan still marks the season with Barsha Mangal, an entire ritual of songs to be sung while it rains.
History shows that every major scientific revolution eventually reshapes civilisation. The steam engine transformed industry. Electricity transformed society.
Driven by both humanitarian concern and imperial paternalism, officials pursued major social reforms, some addressing practices that Indians themselves increasingly questioned.
In 1930, Rabindranath Tagore visited Albert Einstein at his home in Germany. Their conversation soon turned to the nature of reality.
He refused to isolate literature from science, art from lived experience, the individual from society, or national culture from other civilizations.
His record was extraordinary: ten enemy aircraft in thirteen days, achieved at nineteen in one of the first World War’s deadliest arenas.
Albert Claude overcame poverty, war, and limited schooling to become a pioneering cell biologist, transforming our understanding of cellular structure and function.
Your films will remain. Your stories will remain. The Bengal you saw, understood and preserved through your cinema will remain.
Partition divided not only a country, but homes, neighborhoods, economies, friendships, memories, property, politics, and belonging.
Babasaheb deeply understood that a society and religion devoid of inherent human dignity and equality could not be changed merely by laws on paper.
Tea is more than a drink. Its journey spans culture, commerce, colonialism, revolution, science, and centuries of fascinating historical drama.
A place that must never be romanticised with nostalgia. That was why deep bonds were forbidden. Attachment was dangerous.
She loves to draw, but she never kept her work. Her pictures drifted through the room like fallen leaves, mixed with abandon among school notices
Wishing, at least officially, to leave a humble gift, he offered the church a monumental 10-by-12-foot painting of The Last Supper, free of charge.
A justice system that delivers timely verdicts, protects the rights of victims and holds offenders accountable leaves far less room for demands for instant justice.
Tagore struggled to sustain Visva Bharati, traveling worldwide to lecture, perform, and raise funds, even risking ruin rather than compromising his dream.
