Schools including La Martiniere for Girls/Boys, St James, Pratt Memorial, St Paul s Mission, St Thomas, Scottish Church Collegiate School, Christ Church Girls school and others are being run by CNI in the city.
The Reverend Lal Behari Day, who had converted to Christianity, was a Christian missionary and a pioneer of Indian English writing. He was a journalist, writer and collector of Bengali folk tales, which he published in English.
He wrote about peasant life and the life of rural Bengal. His novel
Govinda Samanta (1874) was celebrated as an account of the lives of the rural and working class populations and earned the admiration of Charles Darwin.
Folk-Tales of Bengal (1883) was praised widely and is still regarded with great affection.
His personal life was marked by bold choices made from early youth. Day was born to a family of Subarna-banik caste in Sonapalasi near Burwan. He came to Calcutta and studied at Reverend Alexander Duff’s General Assembly Institution (now Scottish Church Collegiate School) where under Duff’s influence he converted to Christianity in 1843, when he was 19.
A school in the city observed the birth anniversary of B.R. Ambedkar, the father of the Constitution of India, because it felt it was important to “glorify peace, love and unity” in the midst of “violence and the barriers of caste, colour or religion”.
The programme at Scottish Church Collegiate School in Kestopur on Wednesday was preceded by a message sent to all children the previous day about being “same” despite speaking different languages, wearing different clothes and eating different food.
“Whether we are Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist, Christian, Parsi. we are all Indians. So he (B.R. Ambedkar) made a big book with rules to tell us how to live like good Indians and love one another always…. This book is called the Constitution,” the message read.
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