How Swadeshi Brands Benefitted From Rabindranath Tagoreâs Iconic Stature
Tagoreâs involvement with Swadeshi advertising had the atypical pattern of the âours is better than yoursâ â understandable in a market where everything is too new to be loved in itself, and easier to be pitted against a common enemy.
Rabindranath Tagore at work in his study at Santiniketan. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
âTo most of my generation, talking about Tagore does not come easy. Because to us Rabindranath was more than just a person. He was to us a compelling symbol, a symbol of Indiaâs cultural regeneration.â
– K. G. Subramanyan, âRabindranath and Art: A Personal View in Nandan (1977)
Prafulla Chandra Ray is regarded as the “father of Indian chemistry”. His overarching presence shaped the study of science in early modern India. He was a brilliant researcher, a teacher, an entrepreneur and a firm believer in India’s freedom from colonial rule.
He was born in a zamindar family in Raruli-Katipara, a village that was in Jessore then, a district of Bangladesh now. His father had a large library at home. As a child, after an illness that left him with poor health all his life, Ray spent long hours at his father’s library. This left a profound influence on his mind, opening it up to the ideas of the world.
BJP promises Rs 500 crore fund to help Kolkata get UNESCO World Heritage tag
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Major parts of Kolkata are set to vote only in the last few phases of the ongoing assembly polls in West Bengal, but the BJP has already prepared and started the process of reaching out to the people of the city with its vision for the state capital that includes new IT parks, massive infrastructure push, new libraries, cultural meetups and better facilities for artists.
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Major parts of Kolkata are set to vote only in the last few phases of the ongoing assembly polls in West Bengal, but the BJP has already prepared and started the process of reaching out to the people of the city with its vision for the state capital that includes new IT parks, massive infrastructure push, new libraries, cultural meetups and better facilities for artists. A four-page booklet that will be taken to households in Kolkata has a section called ‘Ebaar Notun Kolkata’ or This time, a new K