Category Archives: Bengal

Benoy, Badal and Dinesh

Posted on December 12, 2022 by Ratnakar Sadasyula

Writers Building in Kolkata, designed by Thomas Lyon in 1777, was so called after the junior clerks of the East India Company, called writers who worked here. It was the HQ of the East India Company and later the British … Continue reading →

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Bhupendranath Datta

Posted on September 2, 2022 by Ratnakar Sadasyula

Swami Vivekananda was one of the towering icons of the Bengal Renaissance. A man who inspired Hindus with his call of “Arise, Awake and Stop Not Till you reach your goal”. And his clarion call, inspired the nascent revolutionary movement in … Continue reading →

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Ashutosh Mukherjee

Posted on April 6, 2021 by Ratnakar Sadasyula

To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. A man who has pedalled 25,000 miles on a stationary bi-cycle has not circled the globe. He has only garnered weariness. The quote was a … Continue reading →

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Kalpana Dutta and Pritilata Wadedar- Heroines of Chittagong.

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Ratnakar Sadasyula

Chittagong now in Bangladesh, was one of the most important cities strategically for the British during their rule. It was one of the first towns in Bengal, that was ceded to the British in 1760, as a buffer against the … Continue reading →

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Bipin Chandra Pal

Posted on November 7, 2019 by Ratnakar Sadasyula

You wanted magic. I tried to give you logic. But logic is in bad odor when the popular mind is excited. You wanted mantaram, I am not a Rishi and cannot give mantaram…I have never spoken a half-truth when I know the … Continue reading →

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Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das

Posted on November 5, 2018 by Ratnakar Sadasyula

Alipore, 1909 My appeal to you therefore is that a man like this who is being charged with the offences imputed to him stands not only before the bar in this Court but stands before the bar of the High … Continue reading →

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Bhagini Nivedita

Posted on October 28, 2018 by Ratnakar Sadasyula

To not a few of us, the words of Swami Vivekananda came as living water to men perishing of thirst. Many of us had been conscious for years past of that growing uncertainty and despair with regard to Religion, which … Continue reading →

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Bagha Jatin

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Ratnakar Sadasyula

  When one looks at the history of the revolutionary movement in Bengal, two groups stand out in particular, one the Anushilan Samiti and another the Jugantar party. Anushilan Samiti was founded by a group of local youths from the … Continue reading →

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Khudiram Bose

Posted on August 11, 2018 by Ratnakar Sadasyula

May 2, 1908 The railway station at Muzaffarpur was crowded to see the boy. He was just 18, but looked so determined. The boy walked to the waiting police van, took his seat and loudly cried out “Vande Mataram”. There … Continue reading →

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Punya Tithi of Swami Vivekananda

Posted on July 4, 2018 by Rani Roy

4th of July, 1902 The day America was celebrating it’s Independence Day. It was the day a great soul would pass away into Mahasamadhi. Swami Vivekananda, a spiritual genius of commanding intellect and power who crammed immense labor and achievement … Continue reading →

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