West Bengal Higher Secondary result 2011: List of websites

West Bengal Higher Secondary Examination Results 2011 will be declared on 4th June.  

Here is a list of all the sites from where results can be found

• http://wbchse.nic.in
• http://wbresults.nic.in
• http://results.banglarmukh.gov.in
• http://results.westbengal.gov.in
• http://westbengaleducation.net
• http://examresults.net
• http://results.sify.com
• http://calcuttatelephones.com
• http://clickcollegestreet.com
• http://schools9.com
• http://classontheweb.com
• http://exametc.com
• http://indiaresults.com

4 Kangaroos in Tiger's Den, Alipore zoo get the jumping mammals!

After a long time, 4 red Kangaroos (two pair), Australia's national animal, come to Alipore Zoo today. They have been brought from the Czech Republic under an inter-zoo animal exchange programme. As told by an Official, these Kangaroos are of special breed and can overcome climatic changes. As the zoo had some of them 30 years back, but failed to keep them live for long.


There have been taken ample precaution this time. "This time we are hopeful that the special breed of kangaroos would be able to adapt to the environment. The kangaroos would be kept under special observation for 10 days before they are relocated in the zoo," said the official.

After Kangaroos, four zebras (two pair) will arrive from Israel and six alligators (3 pair) will be brought in from the Sunderbans. So, much fun awaiting for the Kolkatans.

A Conversation in Bangur Hospital

This is just an excerpt from what actually been published in The Telegraph on 26th May '11 on Front page. I think the news will be lost after some time, though some daily reporting may come gradually, but it may not be able to stir public mind. Hope, the reporting here is true.

Hospital head suspended

TAMAGHNA BANERJEE

Calcutta, May 26: The director of the Bangur Institute of Neurosciences was suspended late tonight under instructions from chief minister Mamata Banerjee for alleged “misconduct and insubordination”.

Hours before, neurosurgeon Shyamapada Ghorai had told Mamata that the trail of people following her during a surprise check was inconveniencing patients. Ghorai had several critical surgeries lined up for Friday, and it wasn’t immediately clear whether he could still conduct them.

The Telegraph was present when the chief minister, on her way to Writers’ Buildings, stopped her car in front of the Bangur Institute of Neurosciences on Sambhunath Pandit Street in south Calcutta.

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Mamata, who also holds the health portfolio, enters the hospital at 11.47am. She stops in front of the radiology department on the ground floor. Two patients are on stretchers.

Mamata: What happened? Why are you here? Aren’t they treating you?

A patient’s relative: We are here for an MRI.

Mamata: OK.

She opens the swing door and strides into the radiology department’s “imaging unit”. Around seven employees, including at least one doctor, are inside.

Mamata: What is done in this room?

A doctor: Ma’am, we do MRI.

Mamata: I hope you don’t face problems at work.

Doctor: No, Ma’am, things are fine over here.

Mamata: Do all these machines work properly?

Doctor: Yes, Ma’am, most of them. A few of them may have some problems.

Mamata: What sort of problems? How many machines have such problems?

The employees do not reply.

By then, informed by one of the employees, institute director Ghorai walks up in haste. An official introduces Ghorai to the chief minister.

Ghorai folds his hands in a namaskar and Mamata reciprocates.

Mamata: How many faulty machines do we have here?

Ghorai: I can’t say. There are some.

Mamata: How many machines are here and what are they for?

Ghorai: It’s difficult to say. There are quite a few.

Mamata: Meet me tomorrow with a detailed report of all the machines over here, their present condition and the number of faulty instruments.

Ghorai: Let’s see if I can manage. I have a few operations tomorrow. (He conducts operations on Tuesdays and Fridays.)

The chief minister looks angry. She storms out and the staff follow. So does Ghorai.

Mamata meets some patients from the outdoor section who bombard her with complaints.

“Didi, we don’t have drinking water.”

“Didi, the gates are shut most of the time, preventing the patients’ entry.”

“Didi, there are not enough doctors and they keep us waiting for hours.”

“Didi, the doctors at the outdoor department never turn up on time.”

The chief minister takes notes in a small diary.

A patient’s family begs Mamata for admission. She turns to a hospital official and says: “See what he has to say.”

She asks some of the staff: “What are your problems?”

They call director Ghorai, standing at a distance.

Ghorai (with folded hands): Ekhane ki ebhabe katha bola jai? Aapnar shathe ato lok, ato TV camera, era shob patient-der opor haamle porchhe, odero oshubidha hochchhe (is it possible to speak with so many people and TV cameras around? They are walking all over the patients and causing inconvenience).

Mamata (raising her voice): What is your problem if there are so many people here? I haven’t brought the media with me…. They move about with me because they love me. But you seem to have a problem with the media coming to your hospital.

She pauses for a moment. Ghorai gestures to suggest she is getting him wrong, folds his hands and is about to say something.

Mamata: Seems like you are afraid that if the media come here, you and your acts will be exposed. You have already been exposed. You don’t know etiquette… how to behave with people. I don’t want to speak to you any more. You meet me tomorrow, I will take a decision.

She turns back. On her way out, she pauses beside the two patients on stretchers.

“Did any of the media people disturb you?” she asks.

“No,” says one.

Mamata advances a few paces and mumbles: “Shob shomoy amaar naame dosh chapiye deoa (the blame is always pinned on me).”

12.02pm: Mamata’s black Santro leaves for Writers’.
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Maharaja Tomare Selam

An emotional fan runs into the field to touch Sourav Ganguly's feet during his comeback innings!!

Hats Off to Sourav, you are the king of comeback. You are the inspiration of every man who wants to fight against injustice and never stops that. Self belief is the key to success, you've shown that. How many times you've been thrown into wastepaper busket, and how many times you came back as phoenix!!! Every Bengali, every Indian must have salute you.

The man in the picture! Oh, I wish I could hold you that way...

Here is an old Youtube video where Alex have put much sincere effort in depicting the black nexus of franchise bosses, where despite his great innings as captain of KKR, nobody in auction have thought him worth buying.

In the end of video Alex asked of what's next? I think the top picture is the answer. Oh, people, we're lucky to born in this era.

Salute to Rabi Thakur, mystic poet of India

The fondness with which Rabindranath Tagore is being remembered all across the country and the fact that National Film Development Corporation has taken the initiative to bring out from its archives 7 classical hits made on stories written by Gurudev, as he was christened by Mahatma Gandhi underlines the esteem that this great poet continues to have in our hearts. How many of us are aware about the fact the more than 130 works of Rabindranath tagore, be it stories, or novels have been provided a cinematic interpretation, to be very frank, Bengali cinema would not have been the same had Rabindranath Tagore not been a shinning beacon of this language.

No wonder, one of the biggest showmen alive in Hindi cinema, Subhash Ghai has also been bitten by Tagore's charm. He produced a film in Bengali which was directed by Rituparno Ghosh NOUKABANDI which has been released in Hindi as KASHMAKASH coinciding with the 150th birth centenary of Gurudev. Incidentally Gulzar has translated two of the songs written by Tagore in Bengali version, and it would be interesting to see, how Gulzar has interpreted Tagore in his own imitable manner. It is Rituparno Ghosh's second offering after his 2003 film CHOKER BALI which again was made in Hindi as well, based on the story written by Tagore. Incidentally, apart from Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Raveena Tandon is the third female actor who has played the character based on a Tagore story, second one being Shabana Azmi who played a major role in Tapan Sinha's film DAUGHTER OF THE CENTURY. Name of the film in de-glamorised roles that Raveena Tandon ever played in her acting career.

Indeed, the famous DO BIGHA ZAMEEN, which made Balraj Sahni one of the most illustrious actors in Hindi film industry was adopted by Bimal Roy from a poem written by Tagore, Dui Bigha Zameen, and it is one of the cult films in Hindi cinema. In the same vein can one refer to KABULIWALA as well, which made Balraj Sahni one of the most powerful performers ever to grace silver screen in Hindi cinema.

Now that Subhash Ghai has rediscovered Rabindranath tagore, more such offerings should come into future that would underline the intellectual prowess of Rabindranath tagore, and inform the country about his range, present reference point for Gurudev being the national anthem in most of the cases.

Another malady, another bengali, another pulitzer

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University’s College of Physicians & Surgeons, has won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book, "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," published in November of last year, it was announced by the Pulitzer Prize Committee April 18. After Jhumpa Lahiri, he is the 2nd bengali to receive the prestigious prize.

The Pulitzer award citation described 'The Emperor of All Maladies', published by Harpercollins India, as 'an elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science.' Siddhartha Mukherjee received ten thousand dollars as prize money.

The critically acclaimed book has been described as a 'literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist.' The Book beat other finalists in this category which included 'The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brain' by Nicholas Carr and 'Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and 'The Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History' by S C Gwynne.

"I feel incredible," Mukherjee said in a press release on the day of the announcement. “I was actually in a bookstore when I received the e-mail. There’s been no phone call yet. It’s life-changing for me, and among the people I need to thank are the patients themselves. That’s one of the things I tried to do in the book is honor their stories and give them a voice.” Mukherjee, who joined the P&S faculty in 2009, was interviewed by P&S at the time of the book's release and was asked how, since “biography” is an interesting word choice in relation to cancer, did “biography” emerge as opposed to “history?” “As I was writing and becoming more immersed in this story of cancer, it really felt as if the word ‘history’ was too generic; it didn’t convey the visceral way that cancer becomes part of our lives, particularly in the late 20th century. So I began to search for another description,” he replied.

“When one writes about illness, about the history of disease, we are, in some ways, writing a biography.”

The book was written so that everyone could understand cancer.

“I made a very conscious attempt to bring the readers up to date on the most current discoveries in cancer biology and cancer medicine. It was a challenge: How does one bring an audience up to that moment which has, seemingly, become so esoteric? It simply cannot be esoteric,” Mukherjee explained.

“If you (the layperson) and I can’t have a conversation about one of the most important scientific and intellectual moments in our history, then something is wrong and we need to figure out a way to have that conversation.”

With all that he has learned up to this point, Mukherjee remains hopeful in terms of cancer research and possible cures. “I feel pathologically hopeful! The opposite of hopeful is hopeless. How can you be hopeless? Discoveries have occurred, and discoveries are occurring. Look at the history. Does that mean that every move becomes the most brilliant discovery or the universal cure for cancer? No. But history clearly shows a track record of progress,” he said.

“I often tell fellows and residents, to me there is no discipline we practice as human beings that manages this level of complexity. Not just statistical or scientific complexity, but emotional complexity. That’s what makes it one of the most unbelievably moving professions that exist.”

Mukherjee MD, PhD, is a cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician at the CU/NYU Presbyterian Hospital.

A Rhodes Scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and from Harvard Medical School and was a Fellow at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and an attending physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

He has published articles in Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, Neuron, The Journal of Clinical Investigation, The New York Times and The New Republic.

He lives in New York with his wife and daughter.

The Pulitzer Prize is a US award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by Hungarian-American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City.

Birth of a History

Thus the midday halt of Charnock – more’s the pity! -
Grew a City
As the fungus sprouts chaotic from its bed
So it spread
Chance-directed, chance-erected, laid and built
On the silt
Palace, byre, hovel – poverty and pride
Side by side
And above the packed and pestilential town
Death looked down.

Rudyard Kipling


Once upon a time, there were three small villages beside the Ganga. Sutanuti, Gobindapur and Kalikata. Company agent Job charnok was searching a suitable-secured place like that. How the place became known as "Kolikata" is a little known. However, there are certain theories regarding the naming. According to many scholars, the name "Kolikata" comes from the (Hindu) Gooddess Kali and the city was first called as Kalikshetra, "the place of Kali". There are other stories like

• The name comes from the location of the original settlement beside a khal ("canal" in Bengali)
• The place was known for the manufacture of shell-lime, the name deriving from kali ""lime") and kata ("burnt shell")
• The name is derived from the Bengali kilkila ("flat area"), which is mentioned in the old literature.

The boundaries of the three villages (Sutanuti-Gobindapur-Kalikata) gradually became less distinct, and before the battle of Plassey, the city could be divided into four different sub-areas: European Kolkata (Dihi Kolkata); a residential village with some sacred spots (Gobindapur); a traditional Indian market (Bazar Kalikata or Burrabazar); and a riverine mart concentrating on cloth trade (Sutanati). After the battle of Plassey in 1757, the British started rebuilding the city with the idea of making it the capital for their empire.

The three villages, in particular Kalikata, where Calcutta is located, came into the possession of the British East India Company in 1690 and some scholars like to date its beginnings as a major city from the construction of Fort William by the British in 1698, though this is debated. From 1858 to 1912, Calcutta was the capital of British India. From 1912 to India's Independence in 1947, it was the capital of all of Bengal. After Independence, Calcutta remained the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.

Gourchandrika

"Aamra Bangali jati" - Everybody heard this hilarious bando-sangeet from Chandrabindoo. The song is a tremendous satire of Bong culture. Ok, we cannot agree to all the points raised in this song, but arguably it has addressed many serious issues in funny languages. We all know that, we all know what our drawbacks are and we're not very sad about that. Am I right? We're jealous, we're snobby, we're senti, then we're here happy living in our sacred kingdom. We just don't want to change ourselves. Because this is our character.
Bolo "joy Bangali thakbe tike bhate isobgule, joy joy boga joy".

It is quite a few years after independence. Once we're believed to be cultural superiors to the other people of India. We were much ahead of time when the Bengal Renaissance happened. A bunch of scholars, literary giants, journalists, patriotic orators, scientists, religious and social reformers had influenced the very basic day to day life of not only Bengalees but of entire India. It can be seen as the transition point from 'medieval' to the 'modern' era in India.

Yes, they've helped British to rule but also have opened the door to the eternal light to the ignorant countrymen. They've awakened a sleeping nation. They've taken active part in building our mind and soul. And, Yes, they were Bengali.

Wish we cannot forget the contribution of these great Bengalees.

My blog is a way of homage to these great people. I will post anything regarding Bengal and bengali people, anything that can be helpful to my bengali brothers and sisters.