Kolkata: As a row boils in Banaras Hindu University (BHU) over a Muslim professor teaching Sanskrit, Bengal has shown the way in the last two years with nearly 30 Muslim teachers qualifying as Muslim professors. While 14 Muslim professors were […]
KOLKATA: Comparisons are odious but this one tells a tale. At the Banaras Hindu University, a Sanskrit professor has been facing resistance from a section of students because he is a Muslim. Last week, while these students were engaged in […]
An assistant professor at Rabindra Bharati University who had allegedly been taunted for her caste had been “detained” by some students in a classroom for over four hours, a committee investigating her complaint has said. In its interim report, the […]
Basapura in the Nanoor area of West Bengal’s Birbhum district is often in the news for being a hotbed for political fights. But, an event in the past week has put Basapura in the headlines for fostering equality and shunning communal […]
The Royal Asiatic Society’s Bayly Prize has been won by a student of London School of Economics (LSE) for her anthropological thesis on the lives of Muslim women in rural West Bengal. The Bayly Prize is named after historian Christopher […]
New Delhi: In a show of communal harmony, 50 Hindu and Muslim women have applied “Bhai Phonta” on the foreheads of around 100 men of both the communities in West Bengal’s Nadia district. Organisers said the tradition involving both the […]
Kolkata: Notwithstanding the stinging criticism by Muslim clerics for taking part in Durga Puja celebrations, TMC Lok Sabha MP and film actress Nusrat Jahan Friday participated in ‘sindoor khela’ ritual at a pandal in the city and said she respects […]
A 350-year-old tradition brings Hindus and Muslims together at a Durga puja in Malda’s Chanchol every year, particularly on Dashami when the idols is taken to a pond for immersion. On Dashami, Muslims line up with lanterns, lighting up the […]
During Durga Puja, the ten-day annual festival in Bengal, the city comes together in celebrating the divine feminity. Every year when the entire state of West Bengal, especially Calcutta, decks up in blinding psychedelic lights to celebrate the homecoming of […]
A family in West Bengal has worshipped a four-year-old Muslim girl during the Kumari Puja ritual of the ongoing Durga Puja festival.The Dutta family of Arjunpur in North 24 Parganas district has worshipped Fatima, who hails from Agra in Uttar […]
