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Extracts from the Presidential address of the Theistic Conferences (taken from the booklet published on the occasion of his Memorial Service) The Modern Theistic Movement The modern Theistic Movement in India is not essentially an intellectual movement. It is not a question of intellectual assent or intellectual honesty that is at the bottom of it. It does not stand even for a school of thought with its rational interpretation of the movements of life and order of things and theoretical Read More …

By Sanjoy Chanda Marriage of Brahmo youth and its legality was a matter of great concern. To overcome this problem, Keshub approached the government with the proposal to enact “Brahmo Marriage Bill”. After long deliberations his efforts were successful. “Civil Marriage Act III of 1872” legalized marriages performed without following traditional religious rituals. In 1870 Keshub travelled to England. He was then only 32 years old, but his reputation had preceded him, and he was received by the intellectuals and Read More …

By Sudakshina Kundu Mookerjee National Education policies:  Since independence the union government undertook serious measures to improve and overhaul the education system and its infrastructure. Just as new public sector industries and manufacturing units were set up to make India self-sufficient similarly new centres of excellence in technology were also started. All these efforts were ably assisted by the more advanced countries like the USSR, Germany, Britain etc to help India have trained man power to run these enterprises. However, Read More …

(Taken from the booklet written by Pranab Roy and published by Nalin Kumar Chattopadhyay and Hiran Kumar Chattopadhyay on the occasion of the Memorial Service of Ishan Chandra) Ishan Chandra : Born Agrahayan, 1265 Bangabda, Died 9 Magh, 1370 Bangabda Ishan Chandra Chattopadhyay, the youngest son of Mahendra Nath Chattopadhyay and Mokshada Devi of the village of Nimta in Belghoria, was born in the late Autumn of the year 1858CE (month of Agrahayan of the Bengali calendar in the year Read More …