Prasenjit Gupta speaks to Sanjana Karthik about the inspiration behind his modern translation of Tagore’s Gitanjali
[The birthday of great poet Rabindranath Tagore is being celebrated today the 8th May, at Shanti Niketan as per Bengali Calendar. This day is also the Bengali New Year]
Tagore’s unique poetry
Author and
The Nobel laureate was Pakistani scientist Dr. Abdus Salam who was exiled due to his religion and his Guru was Prof. Anilender Ganguly, who was his mathematics teacher at a college in Lahore
This was the scene in a Kolkata house: in a large room, a weak person was lying on a traditional-Wooden bed; a visitor was seated in a chair close to
Over past 3 decades, Karachi saw up to 70% decline in population of sparrows, who also serve as indicators of air quality
KARACHI, Sindh, Pakistan
Wildlife authorities in Pakistan launched a campaign on Sunday to count the number of sparrows in the country’s largest city of Karachi, where the human-friendly bird is fast
In Rajasthan, Raj discovers a Bishnoi ethos that informs a spiritual tree-hugging practice which pre-dates the modern climate change movement.
A post-covid trip to Rajasthan
Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd inspired my wife (Mangla) and my first trip back to India since Covid shut down the world. We wanted to be in
Scion of a Syed family from Ahmedabad Gujarat in imperial India, Comrade Bukhari spent his life in Sindh since 1922. He was a much-loved and respected Marxist, whose contribution to the cause of peasants, industrial workers and the downtrodden has left lasting imprints not only on the lives of people of the sub-continent but also greatly
