#Calcutta

@oaktreesport

OaktreeSport

#AUSvINDAustralia had last lost a Test at Brisbane in Nov 1988.The world was a very different place before the Gabba became the #gabbatoir , here’s a look at how it

Shiv Ramdas

nameshiv

Ok mine never did any of this, but gather around children, & I will now tell you the story of how my grandmother, the quietest women ever, beat up the

Indian Linguist

IndianLinguist

Unlike Bambaiya, Calcutta's Hindustani dialect much less known.But it has got (maybe for the first time ever) documented thanks to social media + rap culture.Enjoy this cheeky song (NSFW).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap1JfdawpVA Heav

Lakshminarayan G

narayanagl

Experiences with Periva - How I Became Devotee of Maha Periyava?Source: http://thiruppugazh.org Author: Shri V.S. KrishnanIt was sometime in 1963. The queue that formed at Sri Sankara Matam at #Kanchi

𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙮𝙪𝙨𝙝

ps26_11

Thread Remembering one of the most iconic freedom fighter Netaji Shubash Chandra Bose ji on his birth anniversary Bose was born on 23 January 1897 in Cuttack, Orissa (now

𝓗𝓮𝓻𝓶𝓲𝓽

PrudentHermit

After Independence the first DIB of Independent India, Sanjivi Pillai decided to open Foreign Intelligence department in IB. Guess the three countries he chose to post Indian agents. Ans- 1.

Samanway Banerjee

qriosam

One fine afternoon while Jyoti Basu was on the chair as the Chief Minister of West Bengal, he received a call from the Calcutta Airport. It was brought to his

vasabjit banerjee

vasabjit_b

My introduction to humanities and social science from my father, an orthopedic surgeon, sheds light on why universities ought to discard their myopic STEM obsession. A short thread... My father

Alex Deane

ajcdeane

This is instalment 11 of #deanehistory. It’s one of my favourite stories from the 2nd World War, & one of the most unlikely.Portugal’s neutrality was important to us. They permitted

Mahesh 🇮🇳

Mahesh10816

I Visited the house of a senior BJP Karyakarta in Salem, She is well educated , well informed and very articulate too. I was appalled to see the picture of

Kavita Krishnan

kavita_krishnan

Rest in music Pt Jasraj . For my mother and her siblings and parents, he was family. As a young man in Kolkata, he used to come to my grandparents'

🇮🇳🚩JAI SHREE RAAM🚩🇮🇳 team AIVA

deshmata

June 19, 1971 --- When a world-famous Bengali doctor hung from a ceiling fan, these leftists still laughed.The name of the person who committed suicide is Dr. Subhash Mukherjee. Born

Trinanjan Chakraborty

TrinanjanChakr4

On this day, in 1966, started the test match between India & West Indies at the Eden Gardens. A funny personal anecdote I heard from late Shri Chuni Goswami's grandson.

Sumita Singha

Autotelic_Arch

Is your surname Sinha or Singha? In colonial India, surnames were simplified and standardised to make them palatable to Western ears. Our family surname ‘Singha’ was changed to Sinha- along

Aneesh Gokhale

authorAneesh

India's history syllabus is Mughal centric , Delhi centric and doesn't provide sufficient space to Indian heroes is something we have been hammering at on SM for past 15 years

Sheshapatangi1 ಪ್ರಭಾ ಮಗ ಈ ಅಲೆಮಾರಿ ಅಯ್ಯಂಗಾರಿ

sheshapatangi1

Today's the Jayanti of #PunjabKesari Lala Lajpat Rai.Few lesser known facts about the Lal of Lal, Bal, Pal.1) Lala Lajpat Rai Published A Newspaper in #Urdu"Vande Mataram".2) 1920, Lala Lajpat

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