-Oishee Bose The story behind a Japanese-named railway station in the heart of Bengal In the tidal labyrinth of the Hooghly River, not far from Kolkata’s industrial fringe, there is a small cluster of ghats and a modest memorial that carry a name that sounds incongruous in Bengali speech: Komagata Maru. The place-name, attached to […]Read More
“I’m the mother of the wicked, as I’m the mother of the virtuous. Never fear. Whenever you are in distress, just say to yourself ‘I have a mother’. This motherly and affectionate statement was made by the revered saint Sarada Devi. Born Saradamani Mukhopadhyaya, her journey of becoming the ‘Holy Mother’ is imbued with spirituality, […]Read More