Indians, particularly the Bengalees, have vulnerabilities. Sourav is no exception. So he is dear to the Bengalees. In his very first appearance in an One day international in Australia against…
Geetobitan 23rd Boisakh 1425 Dear Mr. Tagore, It was June 25th. 1983. Michael Holding could not read the in-cutter from the mystique arm of Mohinder Amarnath and the red cherry…
Power of love rules the kingdom of Heart. Love of power rules the kingdom. The former stays solid. The latter stumbles from time to time.
There was a time when in Bengal three leading figures of Renaissance congregated: Ramakrishna, Tagore and Vivekananda. It is said that in a sky the sun and moon can never…
India that is Bharat is what the Constitution conceivers believed and wrote in it. The connotation of the phrase is not missing here, but well pronounced. If the Constitution is…
Don’t go away, the night is still left…. There was a time when Durga puja meant to me spending time in Mausumi Athelatic Club, a para club, with unfailing regularity,…
1948. Three bullets were sprayed. 1984. Twenty two bullets were fired. Mahatma Gandhi and Indira Gandhi were assassinated; India lost two statesmen in a space of thirty six years. Indira…
The Bolsheviks overthrew the Provisional Government in Russia and heralded the rise of the Soviet Union in 1917 on 7th November, hundred years back. The Bolsheviks later reconstituted themselves as…
Hemonto arrived. This season is called in English Late Autumn. But Sheeuli is refusing to come. We are missing the pink-stalked white flowers and their fall on rough surface of…
Four-day-long Durga puja comes to an end today. It is time for immersion. Durga idols are being taken to ponds and tanks and rivers. And immersed. It is quite heart-wrenching…