Joruri!!! (Emergency!!!) on her mind, Mamata Banerjee took to social media to tweet a poem and her rendition of a Rabindranath Tagore song on the synthesiser on Wednesday evening, hours before the sta...

With the publication of the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific last month the elucidations of the concept have expanded. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations statement follows that of Australia, ...

Sir — Leading a healthy life is important. But popping vitamin pills incessantly will not help. Researchers at the Tufts University have revealed that taking dietary supplements does not ensure a lo...

A famous Bengali restaurant in the city serves excellent food. The staff greet you warmly. The portions are generous. The menu is diverse. Only one problem persists: the music is Tagore on guitar. Alw...

A teacher who prepared himself for class till the last day of his 30-year career and never hesitated to admit to students if he did not know the answer to a question has been flooded with messages fro...

She fought marriage several times in her teens, would cycle to school as villagers chased her and pelted her with stones every day and started giving tuitions while in school to fund her own education...

The prime minister is blessed with a peculiar wisdom. It is only natural, then, that innumerable countrymen would, on occasion, exhibit signs of peculiar behaviour. After Narendra Modi got India to ra...

Sir — It was deeply heartening to read about the group of fishermen who caught a huge bluefin tuna off the shore of Ireland and then released it into the waters again. It is true that they are a par...

Sir — Yesterday marked the end of this year’s Mental Illness Awareness Week. It was also the 69th day of the communication blockade in Kashmir. Even before the lockdown, a survey found that 41 per...

The centenary of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s first visit to this hill station was commemorated here on Friday.Tagore had first arrived in Shillong on October 11, 1919 with his family and st...