People outside of Bengal have always asked me this question that why Bengalis are so obsessed with poet Rabindranath Tagore? There are no straight answers to this question. Yes this is true, that a certain pride factor work among them to share the fact Tagore is the first Asian to win Nobel prize in literature. …
Amongst the endless variety of the vegetable productions which the bounteous hand of Nature has given to [man’s] use is that simple shrub, whose leaf supplies an agreeable beverage for his daily nourishment or for his solace; but little does he estimate its real importance: he scarcely knows how materially it influences his moral, his physical, and his social condition: …
My knowledge on fashion is quite limited in many sense. Like in past it was quite incomprehensible to me why my female friends liked “Gossip Girl” so much. Well well, definitely for the clothes and shoes in this famous TV series as many would answer me back then. So, when I got this opportunity to …
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness.. …Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two …
Just think what would have happened if celebrated Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore had lost his Gitanjali manuscript and could not get the Nobel Prize as the first non-westerner as a result of this. I think no one will disagree with me that this could have changed the course of South Asian history once and for all given the …
Long time back my favourite poet Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote, Go thou to Rome,—at once the Paradise, The … Continue reading
To know the pace of any city, one should visit its railway station. You can easily figure out the life in a city by looking at the number of people moving in and out of the station. The general characteristics of the place reflects in the geographic space of railway station also. My experience of … Continue reading
In the last few weeks, the issue of immigration crackdown and the falling number of overseas students has appeared in national media quite few many times. None other than Vince Cable, Business Secretary of UK has raised alarm over the matter and said that the immigration policies of British Government are causing public “panic” among … Continue reading
Being a student in London, one should not miss the opportunity of enjoying numerous day-trips to some fabulous places around the city. There are some great places where you can reach within 2 hours by train or by coach and and come back to enjoy your dinner at home. I have earlier visited the beautiful … Continue reading
After long time I am writing on this blog( possibly after a month and half). I was quite busy with one after another essays related to my MA Development and Rights programme. In the meantime, I had written some articles on issues related to India & other current affairs stuff on my other blog. I … Continue reading
“We are living in a high opportunity and high risk society” said Professor Lord Giddens in the public lecture called “Off the edge of history: the world in the 21st century” held at the Shaikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE on February 19, 2013. In this thought provoking lecture he also talked about the technological … Continue reading
When we start talking about the first underground railway system in the world, we can’t ignore history as it’s the part and parcel of the history itself. London tube over the time has witnessed the unfolding of many historical events. It all started with an Act of Parliament in 1855 which approved the construction of … Continue reading
Oscar Wilde famously said, “No great artiste ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artiste”. Be it ‘Expressionism’ which was mainly a modernist movement in the art world where the artiste puts his/her subjective perspective on the canvas or ‘Cubism’, where the artiste tried to show the subject from a … Continue reading
We often think of the old times as the best days of our life. Possibly memories in the mist provides an escape from the daily complexities of our life and we relish them as if they were simpler times. I never forget to include Television as one of my most impact-full nostalgic memories of childhood. India … Continue reading
It was Diwali time and I was all ready to explore Diwali in London. And you cant celebrate Diwali without having a great foodie time by gorging on jalebis and all the traditional South Asian foods with all your friends. This was my first Diwali in London so I teamed up with a friend of … Continue reading
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