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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A concrete replica is coming up of pundit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar’s mud house where the great son of the Bengal renaissance was born at Birsingha village in present day West Midnapore’s Ghatal.
The significance of Mamata Banerjee’s visit to Birsingha, the native village of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, the educator, social reformer and one of the tallest figures of the Bengal Renaissance, can ...
Most performers are interested in the parts that have the greatest number of lines. But of the two roles that Nitya Vidyasagar has in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” she prefers the one that has the ...