After the birth of a child, parents themselves take baby steps into parenthood much like toddlers do – unsure and hesitant. Our first instinct as
I became convinced that as much as I loved to weave on a loom, I loved to get my hands dirty with dyes and paints
The greatest festival of the year for us, the Bengalis, has come knocking at our doors. The Durga Puja is not just a festival. It
So, is silence the loss of voice or sound? I think there is a lot to be read and written about silence, not as an
Luckily, I cleared the written test. The oral test hurdle remained. But I badly needed the money. I had to send some home. That was
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...
A library is more than a treasure house for books. I think it is the temple of learning.
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
