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Servo Premier League a big hit in second edition

IndianOil, in association with The Statesman, successfully hosted the second edition of the much-anticipated Servo Premier League, a full-day cricket tournament for Servo Stockists and Bazaar Resellers.

‘Pedagogy must be flexible’

In an exclusive interaction with Ritwik Mukherjee of The Statesman, Srikrishna G Kulkarni, chairperson, Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC), outlines how the first national institute for post graduate studies and research in management, has evolved and emerged as an international centre of excellence in all facets of management education.

Write right

If you are a Calcuttan and learnt to write before the onslaught of ballpoint pens, then you must have filled your pen with Sulekha ink at least once. It was a Swadeshi product meant to script defiance to British rule, literally. 

An English doctor in the streets of Kolkata

Straight from the remote cliffs of Wales to the bustling lanes and bylanes of Bengal, Dr Jack Preger, commonly known as the ‘pavement doctor’ of Kolkata, was honoured with a lifetime achievement award at this year’s Bengal’s Pride Awards on 17 July 2024, in the UK parliament.

Job Fair at Maharani Kasiswari College

To give job opportunities to final year and Alumni students in different colleges in Kolkata, The Career Development and Placement counselling Committee of Maharani Kasiswari College organised a job fair in the first week of June.

Experiencing solitude with abstraction

A while back, an influential solo art exhibition, titled Solitude, executed by artist Atanu Bhattacharya, was held at the gallery of the Society of Contemporary Art and concluded on 12 July in Kolkata.

Kaleidoscope of visual impressions

A recent exhibition of paintings organised by Surnandan Bharati, a recognised organisation promoting the performing arts, was showcased at the Gaganendra Shilpa Pradarshasala Kolkata from 7–10 July 2024.