ॐ नमो भगवते श्रीरामकृष्णाय·Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramakrishnaya
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Sarat Chandra Bose was the elder brother of Subhas Chandra Bose. He completed both his postgraduation and law in 1911. Later on he joined the Bar in Cuttack. He did the Bar at Law from England and returned to India in 1918. Soon after, he was involved in the Freedom Movement of India and was imprisoned several…
ReadSarojini Naidu was born to a remarkable Brahmin parents in Hyderabad. She was the daughter of Dr Aghornath Chattopadhyaya. Sarojini had a brilliant academic career at home, in London and in Cambridge and was widely acclaimed for the poetry she published between 1905 and 1917. She was popularly known as the ‘Nightingale of the East’ for her poetical compositions in…
ReadHe was philosopher, humanist, educationist and orientalist. Elected the Vice-President of India (1952); unanimously elected the President of the Republic of India (1962-67). Amongst his many works are Indian Philosophy (1923-27), The Philosophy of the Upanishads (1924), Eastern Religions and Western Thought (1939), East and West (1955). While the sayings of Sri Ramakrishna did not penetrate so much into…
ReadProfessor Satis Chandra Chattopadhyaya had a brilliant academic carrier. He first taught at Tangail College. In 1901, he joined Brajomohan College, Barisal where he came in close contact with Aswini Datta. In fact, Sri Datta initiated him in Nationalist Movement. During Barisal famine, Satis Chandra played a very significant role. He suffered imprisonment in 1908. For his involvement in Indian…
ReadSayed Mujtaba Ali was an eminent literateur and a distinguished linguist. At the call of Mahatma Gandhi, he left the school and joined the Non-violence Movement. Between 1921 and 26, he studied at Santiniketan. After the completion of his studies at the Visva-Bharati University, he went to Kabul where he was appointed a Lecturer in English and…
ReadSivanath Sastri was a scholar, religious reformer, educator, writer and historian. He played an active role in the Brahmo Samaj of his time and kept a wonderful record of events but for which it would have been difficult to know and understand his turbulent age. His views have occasionally been criticized. He was not merely a detached historian but…
ReadIndian Politician. Supported Gandhi and joined Swaraj Party (1923); Chief Executive Officer of Calcutta (1924); President of Bengal Congress (1927); led Bengal delegation to National Congress (1928); advocated complete independence for India; many times imprisoned; wrote The Indian Struggle (1935) and Taruner Swapna; President of the Indian National Congress (1938). From Vivekananda I turned gradually to his master, Ramakrishna Paramahansa.…
ReadTarasankar Bandyopadhyaya was an outstanding literary figure of post Rabindranath, post Sarat Chandra of Bengal. In 1921 he was involved in the Non-violence Movement of Bengal and was imprisoned. He was in jail again in 1930. Afterwards he resolved to serve his motherland through literary practices. Until death he served Bengali literature untiringly and wrote several rewarding novels and short…
ReadThomas Merton was one of the most influential Catholic authors of the twentieth century. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of our lady of Gethsemani, in the American State of Kentucky. You have to see your will and God’s will dualistically for a long time. You have to experience duality for a long time until you see it’s…
ReadDurant, William James, known as Will, American historian, taught at Habor Temple School, New York city (1914-1927). After success of his Story of Philosophy (1926), he and his wife Ariel Durant, collaborated on 11-volume Story of Civilization series, comprising, Our Oriental Heritage (1935), The Life of Greece (1939), Caesar and Christ (1944), Age of Faith (1950), Renaissance (1953), Reformation (1957), Age…
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