The Indian Messenger Online

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 an increasingly remote history. Passions about appraising the extraordinary and particularly in the European eye, the controversial figure of the ”Rebellious Fakir”, as Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister and a vehement opponent of decolonisation, described Read More …

By Keshab Chand Challa A way of life is the behaviour and habits that are typical of a particular person or group, or that are chosen by them. “Life imposes things on us that we can’t control, but we still have the choice of how we’re going to live through this.” — Celine Dion Life is gift of God. Life is a journey, not the destination. It is an occasion and an opportunity to realise the truth about one self and the truth of the Read More …

By Madhu Bindu D Sri Jagadish Chandra Bose is well known to all of us as a renowned scientist. But unfortunately, very few people know that Sri Bose was a Brahmo.  It is a fact that is not mentioned anywhere in the school syllabus or reference texts that talk about him. My article will present Bose as the Brahmo rather than the scientist. We will discover the man who grew up in a Brahmo Samaj family, with Brahmo values. In Read More …

By Indrani Roy Jnan Sevak Chatterjee or Bipinda, as he was fondly called by all at Sadharan Brahmo Samaj and its neighbourhood (Samaj Para), was a social worker in the truest sense of the term. As I remember, Bipinda was a well-built person with long unkempt hair, attired in a crumpled dhoti and equally crumpled Punjabi. He roamed about barefooted. He lived in the Sadhan Ashram building with his wife Smt. Swantana Chatterjee and was ever available when anyone in Read More …