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In 1873, had Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's palanquin not taken a wrong turn, India might never have got 'Vande Mataram'An 1873 encounter with a British officer in a palanquin ignited Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's patriotic fervor, leading to the creation of...- From forests to fields: How India's earliest rebels fought colonial exploitation before 1857Across the annals of Indian history, we find vivid accounts of agrarian resistance standing firm against exploitation. From indigenous fore...
- Can you make tasty foods from peels, roots, stems and leaves? The Bengali connection behind zero-waste cooking trendBengalis have long practiced zero-waste cooking. Food scraps are transformed into flavorful dishes. This tradition stems from historical fa...
- Controversial quote by Winston Churchill: ‘I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion’Winston Churchill, celebrated for his World War II leadership, also held deeply critical views of India and its people. His legacy is conte...
- MS Swaminathan: All you need to know about Bharat Ratna awardee & Father of Green RevolutionDr. MS Swaminathan, hailed as the father of India’s green revolution, was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna for his outstanding contrib...
- Nandana Dev Sen refutes reports of her father Amartya Sen's deathOn Tuesday, the family of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen dismissed rumors about the renowned economist's death. Before this, many individuals o...
- For independent India to survive, Green Revolution was inevitable: An ode to MS SwaminathanMonkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, the architect of India's Green Revolution, played a crucial role in transforming the country's food produc...
- With chicken short, Singapore cries fowl!Much of a nation's favourite food has been a product not just of habit but also of cultural pride. While chicken is, of course, consumed in...
- Kangana Ranaut trains guns at comedian Vir Das, calls his 'Two Indias' monologue an act of 'soft terrorism'In the six-minute video, Das talks about the duality of India.
- View: Why India is facing a shortage of oxygen of truth-tellingPandemics are not as easily preventable. But last year's infodemic - the glut of advice on kadha, gau mootra, giloy, steam inhalation and v...
- Farm bills anti-farmer, will lead to famine: Mamata BanerjeeAll opposition parties should come together and fight these bills tooth and nail, said Banerjee who is also the Trinamool Congress supremo.
- Recollecting India's frantic efforts to end starvation after independenceThe nature of hunger has changed, but at a basic level, India still struggles to feed its people adequately.
- Bengal famine of 1943 caused by British policy failure, not drought: StudyNow, for the first time, researchers have analysed soil moisture database from 1870 to 2016 to reconstruct agricultural droughts.
- View: Winston Churchill a bigot, but don’t blame him for 3 million deathsHistorically, no ruler anywhere diverted food from armies fighting life-or-death battles to starving peasants. Quite the contrary.
- Demonetisation: Mamata continues protest in Kolkata; visits RBI office, BurrabazzarMamata visited RBI office in Kolkata to inquire about the availability of Rs 100 and Rs 500 notes. She also made a surprise visit to Burrab...
- Bengal's starving tea workers need Mamata Banerjee's 'mamata'In his classic 1977 book, economic historian Amalendu Guha reckoned around 80% of these workers died on slave boats en route to tea estates.
- Nirmala Sitharaman was outstanding — but WTO Nairobi meet can cause famines: M S SwaminathanSwaminathan discusses why he fears the WTO Nairobi meet could exacerbate global food insecurity, double standards over farming protection.
- West Bengal government makes public cabinet papers on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose between 1938-1947Mamta Banerjee also released a CD containing information about those papers of 401 cabinet meetings during that period which had witnessed ...
- Bengal government may have more Netaji files: Family and researchersWelcoming the release of cabinet papers on Netaji and allied issues from 1938 to 1947, his family and researchers today said the West Benga...
- Presidential poll: I feel like a fish out of water, says Pranab MukherjeePranab Mukherjee today said he was feeling like a "fish out of water" for not having any particular identity at this juncture.
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