Society and Life

He was an oddball in the Calcutta of 60s, teeming with anarchists, Trotskyites, Mao devotees and loonies believing in flat earth. The intellectual to population ratio was high even by the usual Bengali standards. Yet he stood out abetted…

On 24th April 1973 the full bench of the Supreme court in the Keshavananda Bharati Case upheld the right of the parliament to amend any provision of the constitution with a proviso that the parliament can’t alter, emasculate or obliterate…

Of the four must-read books written by Indians, Hind Swaraj by Gandhi (1909), Nationalism by Tagore (1917), The Discovery of India by Nehru (1946), and Annihilation of Caste by BR Ambedkar (1936), the last book is most iconoclastic, as it…

Madhusudan Babu is credited with several firsts; the first postgraduate including graduation in law, the first lawyer, and the first minister who played a pivotal role in bolstering Odia’s identity at the turn of the 20th century. But his…

Jean -Luc -Godard was among the world’s most acclaimed directors, known for classics like Breathless (1960) and Contempt (1963), which broke with convention, inspired iconoclasm, and helped kick start a new way of filmmaking, with handheld…

2020, the year of Rat, which made us live like rats in the name of "SELF QUARANTINE,” was enough to weaken our bones and paralyze us from head to toe. But Nah, not in my case. I decided to give my slackened, lazy and passive afternoons a…

Prof. Jan Tinbergen, the first Noble laureate in Economics, had famously said that for each target you need one instrument; like for combating inflation you need to raise the repo rate. Paul Volker, the Federal Reserve Bank governor of…

On 16 th May 1951, PM Nehru moved the first constitutional amendment bill, ominously declaring that the magnificent Constitution that he and his compatriots in the Constituent assembly had framed fifteen months earlier had been purloined…

Our lives are similar to seeds in that we would be little at the beginning, unable to fend for ourselves, but with the proper amount of care and nurturing, we eventually develop and bloom into a more complete version of ourselves.…

Ever wondered why the spring season is called so? Well obviously because the flowers spring up and burst into blossom. It’s everyone's favorite season because everything around us turns colorful as if a painter has painted the earth…