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TopicIshwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Topic: Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, 19th century visionary who humbled a king, wanted education for all

Sunday marks 201st birth anniversary of Vidyasagar, who also fought for widow remarriage and women's rights. Leaders across party lines paid homage to the reformer. 

Facebook post claims TMC’s Muslim men smashed Vidyasagar bust, but it’s from Iraq

The original picture has nothing to do with the West Bengal violence, but is of ISIS militants destroying ancient Iraqi artifacts. 

Not just Vidyasagar College, even Bangalore University is grappling with statue unrest

Placing statues of Saraswati and Buddha side-by-side to quell a dispute has opened a Pandora’s box at Bangalore University.

Vidyasagar’s ‘warning’ and Mamata as Amit Shah’s ‘mirror image’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

The importance of the Muslim vote in UP, and the silver lining in the Vidyasagar episode

ThoughtShot, ThePrint’s one-stop-opinion-spot from leading newspapers’ editorial pages.

Modi says BJP will replace Vidyasagar’s statue, accuses TMC of destroying the earlier one

Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for punishing those responsible for vandalising Vidyasagar's statue while announcing a five-metal statue to replace it.

Trinamool-BJP clashes just another chapter in Bengal’s long history of political violence

From Curzon’s partition of Bengal to Independence, Naxalbari movement to Left & Trinamool rule and now BJP looking for a foothold, the state has witnessed political violence for over 100 years.

Vidyasagar, the path-breaking reformer & educationist who is Bengal’s intellectual pride

Almost every school student in West Bengal has learned the Bengali alphabet from Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar’s famous book Borno Porichoy.

On Camera

No one should have to choose between a roof and two meals. But India’s migrants do, every day

India’s policymakers need to ensure that labourers, and milk and newspaper delivery workers, do not have to sacrifice food just to keep a roof over their heads.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.