India at the Olympics
The modern Olympics started in 1896. India first participated Olympics in 1900. British India sent its first and only athlete in the 1900 Paris Olympics. Calcutta born Norman Pritchard was the first British- Indian athlete to compete in the...
A Perspective on Modern Strategies to Effectively Stand for Dharma
Dharma is one of the most misunderstood, distorted and attacked concepts in the contemporary world. Some think of it as a religion, others a way of life while still others think of it as a set of moral rules and ethics. It is all of these and...
EXPLORING KOLKATA FROM CALCUTTA
To sketch present Kolkata, we have to fix our eyes when it was formerly Calcutta, covered with chronicles of history. India, our beloved country, had been ruled for centuries by the invaders. Among them, Shaks, Hunas, Pathans, Mughals, Portuguese...
A Boseian Revolution Against the Hegemony of Occidental Thought
Rabindranath Tagore’s beautiful verses ` The great and the glorified of those far off lands, assembled and acclaimed, your work in unison' was for one man he held highly – Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose. Lord Kelvin once wrote to Bose saying that he...
Standing for Dharma but not with those Adharmic Hindus who pervert its essence
A few days ago, a person who had commented on a tweet of mine a while back wrote in, saying that he supported Sati and felt it was a very `pure and sacred practice'. He said, and I quote, "Sati was a glorious practice. I admire the women who took...
The famous Red Fort of India
Red Fort is a renowned and attractive building complex along the Yamuna River, surrounded by several constructions that reflect Persian, Timurid and Indian architectures. Popularly known as 'Lal Qila' to the world. It was assigned for construction...
The Jogadya Temple of Kshirgram
Jogadya Temple, dedicated to goddess Shakti, is situated at Katwa subdivision of Purba(East) Burdwan district of West Bengal. This temple is believed to be one of the Fifty-one Shakti-Peethas. There are two temples of the goddess 'Jogadya'(...
মিশরের সবচেয়ে সুন্দরতম মন্দির এডফু
সেই ছোটবেলা থেকেই মিশরের সপ্তম আশ্চর্যের প্রথম আশ্চর্য পিরামিড, নীলনদ, এসবের কথা শুনে, আর তাদের কথা ভেবে বিস্মিত হতাম। তবে সেইসময় স্বপ্নেও কখোনো ভাবিনি, কোনো দিন এদের দেখতে হাজির হয়ে যাব মিশরে। ১৯৬৩ সালে নির্মিত বিখ্যাত এবং তৎকালীন সবচেয়ে...
AI-ming for a Theory of Everything
Explorations into the nature of reality have been undertaken across the ages, and in the contemporary world, disparate tools, from gedanken experiments [1-4], experimental consistency checks [5,6] to machine learning and artificial intelligence are...
USA based NGO involved in massive Covid Fundraising Scam
In a shocking report by the DisInfo lab, how a phenomenal scam exploiting the sentiments of the diaspora took place over the last few months. The report also is quoted to have mentioned this scam as one of the “Worst in human history”. When the...