In a letter to the artist, Asit Kumar Haldar, Abanindranath Tagore asked him not to be a gurumoshai and frighten students when teaching in “Bolpur”: “Remember, to teach birds one must turn into a bird too.” By Bolpur, Abanindranath meant Kala Bhavana, the fine arts school that Rabindranath Tagore had begun in Santiniketan.
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the new director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) describes herself as a pragmatic person. She sets out her agenda in her first interview after becoming the first woman and the first African to bag the top job at the multilateral body.
Anbil Dharmalingam Agriculture College and Research Institute (ADACRI) in Trichy has developed a new paddy variety TRY 4, to help farmers who are unable to achieve good yield due to salinity in their agriculture lands.
Indian born siblings Anush Kadian and Vish Kadian, aged 26 and 27, share that they have received funding of £3.2 million or 32 crore rupees from investors for their start-up.
The CO17 variety with a duration of 135 days was ideal since there was no side branching, and was suitable for mechanical harvesting and high-density planting wherein one lakh plants are raised per hectare, Prof. Somasundaram said.
India captain Virat Kohli has recorded another century, albeit not on the pitch this time, as he became the first cricketer in the world to have 100 million followers on social media platform Instagram.
The 32-year-old Kohli is also the first person in the Asia-Pacific region to achieve the feat.
Javadekar made this announcement at a programme organised by the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) in Kolkata.