Vehicles travelling westbound along AJC Bose Road towards Vidyasagar Setu from the Zeerut Island side will be diverted from ...

During the maintenance work being undertaken by the Hooghly River Bridge Commissioners Authority, movement of all types of ...

The recent demolition of a bust of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar in the lobby of the Vidyasagar College building on Bidhan Sarani, Kolkata, provides a sad reminder of long-standing cultural ambivalence ...

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar is the 19th century polymath reformer from Bengal who became a powerful voice against women oppression in the state and also propagated widow remarriage. He is a revered ...

Abhishek Banerjee questions Amit Shah’s failure to visit Vidyasagar College, renewing BJP's 2019 wound as the Trinamool accuses the party of disrespecting Bengal’s icons Amit Shah pays tribute to a ...

As revered as Swami Vivekananda by Bengalis, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar is the 19th century polymath reformer who modernised and simplified the Bengali alphabet and propagated widow remarriage. The ...

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, an educator and social reformer was a brilliant student and person with a lot of knowledge. He is best remembered for his social and educational reforms. In literature he ...

In nineteenth-century Bengal, two figures who offer an interesting study in contrast are Rammohun Roy (1772-1833) and Iswarchandra Vidyasagar (1820–’91). Both were Brahmans who were closely associated ...

Vidyasagar did not want to build India based on religion; instead he wanted India to be the melting pot of all cultures, Suranjan Das, the vice-chancellor of Jadavpur University, said. He has become ...