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By Ashit Sarkar Banga Chandra Roy was one of the foremost leaders of the Brahmo movement in East Bengal in the late nineteenth & early twentieth centuries. He was born in a village near Dacca but unfortunately lost his father in his infancy. During his school days, he became a member of the ‘Manoranjini Sabha’ – an association of local boys for attaining moral improvement. Whilst there, Brahmananda Keshub Chandra Sen’s inspiring pamphlet ‘Young Bengal: This is for you’ inspired Read More …

 By Sudakshina Kundu Mookerjee There have been several trail blazers in the history who have made outstanding contributions of women to Scientific studies. In the eighteenth century women had little opportunities for university education and yet some of the brilliant minds outshined their male counterparts. We may begin with Gabriel Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet or simply Emilie du Châtelet (1706 – 1749) who was a French scholar of Mathematics and Physics. She translated Newton’s Principia in Read More …

Brief History by K. C. Challa BHADROTSAV is an important festival of the Brahmos. On 6th of Bhadra 1235 (according to the Bengali calendar) or 20th August 1828 the first Brahmo Samaj was opened by Raja Rammohun Roy with Tarachand Chakravarty as its first secretary. It started on a rented house belonging to Feranghee Kamal Bose and accommodated the first theistic congregation. It should also be noted that coincidentally or otherwise other Brahmo Samajes were also opened in this particular month Read More …

Contributed by Aniruddha Rakshit and B.R. Panda The Quit India Movement or ‘Bharat Chodo Andolan’ was a water-shed in the freedom struggle of India, which was led by Mahatma Gandhi, who inspired all the people across India to come together against British imperialism. The British Governor-General of India, Lord Linlithgow, involved India into World War II, in 1939 and proposed to induct the Indian soldiers to fight for the British. The Cripps mission was sent to ask for cooperation from Read More …

Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray Born August 1861 – Died 6th June 1925 by Aniruddha Rakshit Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray was an Indian scientist and teacher of repute. He was one of the first “modern” Indian to do path breaking research work in Chemistry. His discovery of the stable compound Mercurous Nitrite in 1896 put him on the world map of great scientists. The ideal of a free nationhood was so strong in him that he established the Bengal Chemical and Read More …

By Sudakshina Kundu Mookerjee Introduction: Science is a study of nature and the behaviour of natural phenomena. It is a knowledge based on facts learnt through observations and performing experiments. The quest starts with systematically gathering information and amassing evidence in support of the hypotheses that can be tested and finally made into laws that govern the natural phenomena. Therefore, science is an objective search for truth based on logic. Science promotes rationality which helps in eradicating the curse of Read More …

By Jayati Gupta Those of us who have grown up in Brahmo families perhaps need to appreciate the legacy of women’s education and value it. As a young girl it had never occurred to me that to see grandmothers who could read and write, aunts who were teachers or doctors, a mother who could help with the homework or read out stories was anything unique. Whether it is a girl child or boy, going to school and college were the Read More …

We remember with respect and admiration the men and women who have dedicated their lives to the cause and ideals of the Brahmo Samaj and its counterparts across India. We are presenting short life sketches of those who were born or had died between the months of December to May. Sri Kandukuri Veerasalingam Pantulu Born April 16, 1848; – Died May 27, 1919 By Keshab Chandra Challa Bengal Renaissance, the huge socio-cultural and religious reform movement during the nineteenth and Read More …

A story about Raja Rammohan Roy Presented by Debanjan Roy Source: Author: Shashibhushan Basu, “Raja Rammohan Roy”, Language: Bengali There was a garden adjoining Rammohan Roy’s house. A Brahmin used to come from this garden every day to pick flowers for the worship of the deity. One day while picking flowers, he put his clothes on a branch of a tree and started picking flowers. At that time, a servant of Rammohan Roy put aside the clothes of the Brahmin. Read More …

By Prof. Santanu Sen More than seventy years have elapsed since the assassination of the leader of the Indian anti-imperialist movement, Mohan Das Karam Chand Gandhi. The years of dramatic struggle to liberate the great nation from the colonial yoke are becoming part of increasingly remote history. The passions about the appraisal of the extraordinary particularly in the European eye and controversial figure of the ”Rebellious Fakir” as Winston Churchill the British Prime Minister a vehement opponent  of decolonisation described Read More …