The Gaurikund-Rambara trek to Kedarnath was a 14 km trek to Kedarnath which was devastated by the floods. The Government of Uttarakhand has chalked out an alternative path, which was originally a 27-kilometre traditional path to Kedarnath. This pedestrian route from Guptkashi will pass through Kalimath and Chaumasi.
Krishna Chandra Dey (1893–1962) was better known as K. C. Dey. He was the uncle of the famous singer Manna Dey and also an exponent of music. He was a Bengali actor, singer, music composer and teacher. He was the first teacher of music and mentor of the legendary music composer Sachin Dev Burman. In…
The year 2012 celebrated the 125 years of five innovators, Henry Moseley, Sukumar Ray, Erwin Schrödinger, Jamini Roy, and Srinivasa Ramanujan. Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley was an English physicist who provided the explanation of X-ray spectra, which justified many concepts in chemistry by sorting the chemical elements of the Periodic Table of the Elements in…
Benode Behari Mukhopadhyay was an eminent Bengali painter and muralist. He taught in Vishva Bharati University in 1925. He was born with serious defects in his eyes. He was myopic in one eye and blind in the other. He became totally visually impaired when his myopic eye was operated upon in 1956. He continued to…
Cloud forests are usually found in the tropical or subtropical regions such as South Africa, Indonesia and South America. They are also found in temperate regions such as Japan and Pakistan. The clouds cover up to the middle level of these forests and persist there. The forests are dark due to low infiltration of light…
Located on the Alaskan island of Unimak, Mount Shishaldin is the highest mountain in the Aleutian Islands. The snow clad mountain was formed 10,000 years ago after a volcanic eruption. It is conical in shape, which is more symmetric than Mount Fuji of Japan.
