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The Bengali word for Rainbow has been changed. Henceforth, a rainbow in Bengali shall be known as 'Rongdhonu (রংধনু)', instead of Ramdhonu (রামধনু). A decision to change the word was taken ...

12 January. What comes in your mind? Is it National Youth Day? Is it the birthday of one of the greatest Indians ever born, Swami Vivekananda? Well, you’re half correct, not ...

Language evolves naturally, while Grammar is always formulated by language scholars, the meaning of words come into existence based on multiple factors which also include cultural and civilizational history of the ...

Nehruvian socialism has always been a concept that believes in the uprooting of social norms, ethics and values in exchange for the economic infiltration of unrelated cultures into a native fabric. ...

On 12 January, 1863, one of the greatest Hindus in recent memory was born. A son of the soil who would take Dharma to the West and become one of its ...

Over a hundred years ago, in a letter to his fellow revolutionary - Motilal Roy, Sri Aurobindo remarked, "The intellect of Bengal has been so much fed on chemical tablets of ...

On Saturday, the 7th of January in Kolkata, the Shahi Imam of Tipu Sultan Mosque, Maulana Syed Mohammad Nurur Rehman Barkat, did the unthinkable when in a meeting organised and chaired ...

One of the best solutions to keep control over a newly acquired state is to establish colonies therein. If this cannot be done, it is necessary to station a large army ...

In the aftermath of Brexit and Trump’s victory, the future of the European Union looks increasingly shaky each day. With popular anger rising among Europeans owing to continuing economic slowdown and ...

Modi, Modi, Modi. Never has a Prime Minister become a nightmare as much for the opposition as the humble but bold Prime Minister from Vadnagar, Gujarat, has for the past 2 ...

Democratic apparatus here has flourished owing to an unprecedented safeguarding by twin duo institutions. The judiciary and the armed forces have been the bedrock foundations on which democracy here has rested ...

A false narrative that has become a part of the political mainstream is that Bengal, unlike other parts of the country, had always been secular and that even after partition, both ...