NEWS – April 2022

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Barsho Sesh & Barsho Boron at Sadharan Brahmo Samaj Barsho Sesh 1428On 14th April, 2022, special divine service was arranged on the occasion of “Borshosesh 1428” at Sadharan Brahmo Samaj. Divine service was conducted by Smt. Jayasree Bhattacharya and hymns were conducted by Smt. Ritasree Bhattacharya.  Barsho Boron 1429“Barsho Boron” 1429 was celebrated on 15th April 2022 morning at Samaj prayer hall. The programme started at 10.30 am, divine service was conducted by Sri Siddhartha Brahmachari and hymns were by Read More …

INVOCATION – March 2022

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It is a wonderful blessedness to be able to forgive our enemies, to wipe off all offence, insult, outrage in one act of instantaneous love. – Pratap Chandra Majumdar * * * * He prayeth best who loveth bestAll things both great and small;For our dear God who loveth us.He made and loveth all. – Coleridge * * * * Seek not your own life – for that is death but seek how you can best and most joyfully give Read More …

Editorial – March 2022

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The last month of the Bengali calendar starts from the middle of March and this is perhaps the last month of spring in the Indian subcontinent. The scorching heat of summer starts well before summer knocks at our door officially and the climate is rendered much warmer due to our constant embarrassment of the eco-system. This year the charms of this beautiful season has eluded us even more as the world is caught in the grip of a violent war Read More …

Education Reforms in India Post Independence (Part – V)

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By Sudakshina Kundu Mookerjee Higher Education:So far, the graduation courses in general streams of science, humanities and commerce in Indian colleges have consisted of three years of training at the end of which the students were awarded bachelor’s degrees. Earlier some of the Universities awarded bachelor degrees in ‘Pass’ courses without any specialisation, after two years while an honours or specialisation course was all of three years. However, some special institutions of excellence were allowed to offer a four years-long Read More …

Tribute – Heramba Chandra Maitra

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Brief Biography: Heramba Chandra Maitra was born in the year 1858 CE and died in 1938 CE. He was the principal of City College, Calcutta., which was founded as a school in 1879, and subsequently raised to a College in 1881 by a number of patriotic members of Sadharan Brahmo Samaj including Ananda Mohan Bose, Sivanath Shastri, Umesh Chandra Dutta and himself among others. An adoring student of Charles Tawney, he was steeped in Carlyle, Emerson and William Wordsworth. He Read More …

Gleanings – From the Pen of Shri Beni Madhab Das

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Extracts from the Presidential address of the Theistic Conferences (taken from the booklet published on the occasion of his Memorial Service) The Brahmo Samaj: The Brahmo Samaj movement is the movement of worship, where work is worship and worship is work. The two, although different in form and values , are integrated into one whole. The worship may be in the transcendent height – of Brahma in the Turiya (self-transcendent) state and of Brahma or God in his self-manifestation. The Read More …

INVOCATION – February 2022

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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

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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)

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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

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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 …