Enduring imagePARTHA CHATTERJEEK.K. Mahajan, who passed away on July 13, enriched Indian cinema with imaginative camerawork.
Versatile geniusPARTHA CHATTERJEEBenodebehari Mukherjee's art came out of a grand detachment and an awareness of nature's cycle.
Pamuk's battlesPARTHA CHATTERJEEOrhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is a master at mixing known genres and styles.
Khan of shehnaiPARTHA CHATTERJEEPeerless shehnai player Ustad Bismillah Khan leaves behind a repertoire of sublime music.
Agent of deathS. CHATTERJEEIT is impossible not to be personal. I remember April 30, 1975. My laboratory partner rushed in, announcing: "There are celebrations. Vietnam is liber
In pursuit of a dreamS. CHATTERJEEEinstein's thoughts went far beyond the frontiers of science: he was a symbol of the struggle for peace, social justice and socialism.
Bernal, 50 years afterS. CHATTERJEESOMETIME in the mid-1960s, a special meeting of the Soviet Academy of Science had been convened, with the sole agenda to discuss a book: Science in Hi
Tracking VenusS. CHATTERJEEThe transit of Venus, which led to the calculation of the Astronomical Unit, has evoked tremendous interest among the scientific community through the
A scientist for peaceS. CHATTERJEEA tribute to Dorothy Hodgkin, scientist, peace activist and a friend of India, on the occasion of International Women's Day on March 8.
Bateshwar, 1942MANINI CHATTERJEEIT was August 1942. Mahatma Gandhi had given his 'Do or Die' call, unleashing the last mass struggle for freedom from British rule. On August 9, all t
The relevant provisionsMANINI CHATTERJEEAS per the judgment in the Special Judge's trial No. 3 of 1943, the Bateshwar incident was a case under Sections 147 and 436/149 of the Indian Penal C
The last strawMANINI CHATTERJEETHE lady has finally broken her silence. But she has yet to speak. After months of feverish speculation on "will she or won't she," the imperiously ti
The great Indian family A strict population control policy sounds good on paper, but it ignores sociological correlations.
SlideshowThe hungry river Villages in West Bengal’s Malda and Murshidabad districts live under the constant threat of river erosion that eats up their homes overnight.
