Tag: Kolkata
India’s first TransQueen resigns, fights on and off the stage while participating MIQ
Kolkata: India’s first TransQueen Nitasha Biswas is participating in Miss International Queen (MIQ) 2018, at Bangkok, which could have been the inception of a...
Joyita Mondal: Transgender, who left home, begged, slept at platform but now holds the most respectable job
Kolkata: She has had to sleep on a bus stop or railway station. Hotels have refused accommodation. She has been bullied for her identity....
Jharkhand Government is treating poor people like guinea pigs—Jean Dreze
Kolkata: Developmental economist Jean Dreze, who is presently leading a campaign - Ration Bachao in Jharkhand, was in Kolkata to release the Bengali translation of...
From Selling Vegetables to Building a Hospital: The Padma Shri-Winning Journey of Subasini Mistry
Widowed at 24 after losing her husband to a treatable illness, Subasini Mistry vowed to build a hospital for the poor. Working as a maid and vegetable seller, she saved to educate her son as a doctor and founded Humanity Hospital in 1996. Now a Padma Shri awardee, she continues expanding affordable healthcare
West has always taken African resources without giving back anything to Africa– Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Kolkata: Listening to post colonial theorist Ngugi Wa Thiong’o live, at Kolkata’s iconic Victoria Memorial was like a treat, treat of the mind and...
Bengal journalists have the spine to question and that is why the attack
Kolkata:Kolkata Press Club has strongly condemned the attack on media persons on February 14 by Hindu Sahmati supporters during a conversion programme.
“Today, a section...