Lamp In the Lotus
Time and again we have seen in the human history that great ideas, great institutions, and even great revolutions take place with the collective thoughts and efforts from the leaders of the then societies to pursue a common purpose. Bengal Renaissance is such a phenomenon that came to a pinnacle at the turn of the 19th Century during the partition of Bengal by Lord Curzon. The British is-Calcutta tried to spread western educational thoughts among the elite in India by creating in the words of Lord Macaulcay, "a class of Indians who would be Indian in blood and colour but western in thought and ideas".... read more
