In 1823, Raja Ram Mohun Roy wrote a perceptive letter to Governor General Lord Amherst pleading the cause of scientific education in India. It will be an apt occasion for science fraternity to commemorate its bi-centenary
By Nitya Chakraborty May 9 this year is the occasion for the observance of the 162nd birth anniversary of the globally admired poet and visionary Rabindranath Tagore. Born in Calcutta in 1861, Tagore lived an active life of 80 years till he died in 1941 on August 7 in the midst of the devastations caused