Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was born as Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay in Birsingha village, Hooghly district, Bengal on September 26, 1820. He was born into a Hindu Brahmin family to parents Thakurdas ...

In April 1859, an advertisement in the Bengali journal Tattwabodhini announced that prints of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar’s portrait had been released for sale. The insertion read: People across the ...

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, an educator and social reformer was a brilliant student and person with a lot of knowledge. He is best remembered for his social and educational reforms. In literature he ...

Social reformer, writer, philosopher, educator and what not, Ishawar Chandra Vidyasagar in his lifetime achieved great feats. Vidyasagar, who was born as Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, passed away in ...

On the border between Bankura and Purulia districts of West Bengal, there lies a village called Ushardihi; 142 kilometres to its north is a census town called Karmatar. Today Karmatar is part of ...

Sarifa Salowa Dina, dean, faculty of arts and social science-cum-head of the Bangla department, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh, on Sunday said Indian social reformist Ishwar Chandra ...

While Bengal is no stranger to student and political violence, the attack on its cultural legacy has angered manyThe poll narrative, however, is something Bengalis are taking with a pinch of salt.

The Raj Bhavan in Kolkata will soon have a chair named after the great educationist and social reformer Ishwar Chandra Chattopadhyay, popularly known as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, whose relentless ...

Garbati High School, established in 1860, has witnessed a steady fall in admissions to Class V in the past few years. Parents preferred to send their wards to private English-medium schools in the ...

Researchers at Vidyasagar University in Midnapore have identified a new plant species in the Ajodhya Hills and have named it in honour of the social reformer after whom their institution is named: ...