Category: INDIA

By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Editor-ICN Group SHIMLA: Tracking in the forests and road side slopes we often come across pine needles strewn on the paths under tall pine trees. When these needles dry up the paths become slippery and they also add to the occasional forest fires that destroy forest wealth, the trees. Some time back one would wonder if these very unwanted pine needles could be put to some use and utilised for  made profitable ventures. Ancestors reveal that these very needles were at one time being used as…

By: Dr. Samayug Bhowmik, Bureau Chief, ICN-West Bengal               PART-3 KOLKATA: Herein, I will highlight three Indian daughters who became doctors and made their presence in other fields also.They are Kadambini Ganguly, Anandi Gopal Joshi and Rukhmabai. Dr.Rukhmabai, born on 22 November 1864  was an Indian physician and feminist. She was also a practicing doctor  involved in a landmark case involving her marriage as a child bride. The case raised significant public debate across several topics, which most prominently included law/ social reform vs tradition/ conservatism, in the then British-ruled India which ultimately manifested into the Age of Consent…

By: Dr.Samayug Bhowmik, Bureau Chief, ICN-West Bengal               PART-2 KOLKATA: Herein, I will highlight three Indian daughters who became doctors and made their presence in other fields also.They are Kadambini Ganguly, Anandi Gopal Joshi and Rukhmabai. Dr. Anandi Gopal Joshi (popularly known as Anandibai), another Indian, graduated as a physician in 1886 from the United States. Originally she was named Yamuna’. She was born on  31 March 1865 at Poona( now Pune).You might have seen her in Google Doodle this year on March 31. As…

By: Dr.Samayug Bhowmik,Bureau Chief, ICN-West Bengal          PART-1 KOLKATA: Herein, I will highlight three Indian daughters who became doctors and  made their presence in other fields also.They are Kadambini Ganguly, Anandi Gopal Joshi and Rukhmabai. Dr.Kadambini Ganguly was the first medical graduate from India and also in the entire British Empire. She was the first South Asian female physician, trained in western medicine, having graduated from India.  Born at Bhagalpur in 18 July, 1861, she was a student of Bethune College under University of Calcutta. She was one of the first women along…