The Raj Bhavan in Kolkata will soon have a chair named after the great educationist and social reformer Ishwar Chandra Chattopadhyay, popularly known as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, whose relentless efforts paved way for instruction of the system .
The 19th century intellectual giant whose bust was vandalised in the course of a streetfight between BJP and Trinamool Congress supporters in Kolkata on May 14 was perhaps the first Indian reformer to put forward the issues of women.