Biography

Between 1915 and 1948, Ghanshyam Das Birla and Mahatma Gandhi exchanged over 1,800 letters. They wrote about money, about the...

S.H. Raza spent decades painting in Paris before he found the single image that would define everything he had been...

Abanindranath Tagore looked at the oil paintings filling the walls of colonial Calcutta and made a deliberate decision to turn...

On the night of April 18, 1930, a schoolteacher from Chittagong led sixty-five young men and women in a coordinated...

In the summer of 1915, a Bengali revolutionary with a reputation for fighting tigers with his bare hands was waiting...

Begum Hazrat Mahal was not supposed to lead a revolution. She had been a courtesan, then a royal wife, then...

The brilliant poet Rabindranath Tagore found a new voice in his old age when his pen suddenly stopped writing and...

Khudiram Bose was eighteen years old when he was hanged by the British colonial government in Muzaffarpur on 11 August...

Bhikaiji Cama stood before an international socialist congress in Stuttgart, Germany in August 1907 and unfurled a flag she had...

Matangini Hazra was seventy-one years old when she walked to the front of a protest march in Tamluk and refused...