Author: Anurag Banerjee

A member of the Bombay’s literary circle in the Fifties of the last century that included A.S. Wadia, Simon Pereira, Armando Menzies, D.F. Karaka, Frank...

Dear Friends and Well-wishers, A patriot, journalist and freedom fighter, Nirmal Singh Nahar (28 July 1922—3 September 2012) hailed from the famous Zamindar family of...

Dear Friends and Well-wishers, The eleventh ‘Auro Ratna Award’ ceremony was held on Sunday, 14 August 2022 at ‘Agastya’, the residence of Dr. R. Y....

Bashisht Babu — we called him so — was born in a middle class family at a village called Suhwal in Gajipur District of Uttar...

Dear Friends, The Seventh ‘Shrimat Anirvan Memorial Oration’ was held on Friday, 8th July 2022, at Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, 8 Shakespeare Sarani, Kolkata 700071. The...

Dear Friends, Ma Indira Devi (26 March 1920—31 December 1997) was born as Janak Kumari to Captain Kriparam (a rich hotelier) and Sakuntala Devi. Born...

Dear Friends, Shrimat Anirvan (8 July 1896—31 May 1978) had mastered the Astādhyayi of Pānini at a very early age. After completing his formal education...

Dear Friends, Born as Bernard Enginger on 30 October 1923, Satprem was a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War and was...

In my childhood in Ballyganj — a sophisticated area of South Kolkata — there were several addresses where, now and then, on leaving her Himalayan...

Dear Friends, We are happy to share with our readers an interview with the Mother taken by Sanat K. Banerji on 6 March 1950. Sanat...