INVOCATION – February 2022

Life is an earnest aspiration towards an endless endeavour for the attainment of God. – Gurdial Mallik * *   *   *   * I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. – Khalil Gibran * *   *   *   * Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never if necessary, in any Read More …

Editorial – February 2022

Pandit Sivanath Sastri, was born on January 31, 1847. Let us remember with gratitude and reverence the social reformer who ardently served the Brahma Samaj in general and was the architect of Sadharan Brahmo Samaj in particular, along with other luminaries like Ananda Mohan Bose et al. Other than his social reforms, he made his mark as an author who documented the history of his times for posterity. He was also a philosopher and a scholar who translated many important Read More …

Education Reforms in India Post Independence (Part – IV)

By Sudakshina Kundu Mookerjee The New National Education Policy: The new NEP proposes a model of splitting up school education in to four stages of 5+3+3+4 years. According to the ministry of Human Resource Development the school education will be split up into stages with 5 years of Fundamental, 3 years of Preparatory, 3 years of Middle and 4 years of Secondary.   The Fundamental years start from includes Nursery at the age of 4 y e a r s f o Read More …

Tribute – Beni Madhab Das

Beni Madhab Das was born on 22th November, 1866, in Sarowatoli, Chittagong, in the then Bengal Province of British India to Shri Hrishna Chandra Das. He passed away on 2nd September 1952, at Calcutta. Beni Madhab Das was a great erudite scholar, an inspiring teacher and above all a great patriot. Beni Madhab Das earned his post-graduate degree in Philosophy and joined the Chittagong College, which he converted into a model institution. He was initially a lecturer in the Government Read More …

Gleanings – From the Pen of Shri Beni Madhab Das

Extracts from the Presidential address of the Theistic Conferences (taken from the booklet published on the occasion of his Memorial Service) The Modern Theistic Movement The modern Theistic Movement in India is not essentially an intellectual movement. It is not a question of intellectual assent or intellectual honesty that is at the bottom of it. It does not stand even for a school of thought with its rational interpretation of the movements of life and order of things and theoretical Read More …

NEWS – February 2022

192nd Maghotsava Celebration at Sadharan Brahmo Samaj This year due to Covid-19 pandemic restrictions the 192nd Maghotsava was celebrated in a limited manner and most of the programmes were organised on digital platforms. On 18th January 2022 (4th Magh, 1428) in the evening, Udbodhan of 192nd Maghotsava was organized on Samaj’s YouTube channel. Devine service was conducted by Shri Sanjib Mukhopadhyay and hymns were sung by Smt. Ditsha Sanyal, Shri Arindrajit Saha, Shri Rajnath Das, Shri Manaswi Choudhuri, Shri Subhasish Read More …