Sitala Prasad Roy

    Charles Darwin is recognized as one of the greatest British scientists who ever lived. He can be rightly termed a revolutionary, because he transformed the understanding of the contemporary people on the living world. Darwin was born in 1809 at Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. His father was a doctor, and his mother was the daughter of the very popular potter Josiah Wedgwood. Darwin’s mother died when he was just at his 8 years of age, and virtually raised by his elder sisters. He used to be fascinated by the natural world from a very tender age. Gradually he became an avid reader of books on nature and devoted his spare time to exploring the fields and woodlands in his locality for collecting specimens of plants and insects. Darwin was enrolled in medical school in the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in 1825, where he came to see surgery on a baby. During that time surgeries had to be carried out without the use of any anesthetic or antiseptic, resulting ...

    It was January 1987, when I made my first trip to Rajasthan with three of my friends. We started our journey from Howrah by Kalka Mail in 3-tier (now sleeper class). During that time journey by AC coach was not so popular. Moreover, it was also in the mindset of common people that journey by such a coach was meant for rich people only. It was also my first long journey by a beautiful train (of that time) like Kalka Mail. In all respect it was a very nice journey for us. We were in Agra for two days, and thereafter went to Jaipur by bus enjoying almost a day long road journey. The purpose of my writing this small article is not to give any vivid description of our tour to Rajasthan or to say any thing about the beautiful palaces etc. spread over the whole state. Because, there is no dearth of good articles and books on different aspects of Rajasthan. Here I want to share my experience over an issue that made a deep imprint in my mind. After visiting different...