Did you know that one of NASA’s Great Observatories in the US is named after a nephew of Indian physicist and Nobel laureate Sir C V Raman? It’s called the ‘Chandra X-Ray Observatory’ after mathematician and astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, an Indian-American who too, like his uncle, won the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1983.

Did you know that one of India’s most famous astrophysicists gave the country its National Calendar? Meghnad Saha headed the team that took the 30-odd calendars that were being followed in India at the time, and crunched and correlated all those dates, celestial events, festivals and auspicious days, to come up with one single calendar – the Indian National Calendar. Adopted in 1952, it was meant to be a uniform calendar for pan-India use. It is the official calendar used by the Government of India.

Did you know that Eulie Chowdhury was one of India’s first women architects? She was a part of Le Corbusier’s team that designed Chandigarh from 1951 to 1963 and she later designed and built many of the city’s iconic buildings on her own steam. She was also the first woman Chief Architect of Chandigarh and Haryana.

For a long time, it was believed that the history of Bombay began with the arrival of the Portuguese in the 16th century CE. But, in 1924, historian V K Rajwade published his version of an old document called Mahikavatichi Bakhar and opened up the history of this great city in ways no one had done before. The Bakhar was a narrative composed in verse and Rajwade’s work bridged the gap between the known history of ancient Sopara of 3rd CE and Portuguese of the 16th century CE.

Did you know that noted Indian politician Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee’s father, Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee, played an important role in shaping the University of Calcutta? ? Popularly known as ‘Banglar Bagh’ (Tiger of Bengal), he was an educator, a jurist and a barrister and only the second Indian Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University. He laid the foundation stone of the University College of Science, Technology and Agriculture (commonly known as Rajabazar Science College) on 27th March 1914. The first batch of students included eminent scientists like S N Bose and Meghnad Saha, while its faculty included Acharya P C Ray and Sir C V Raman.

Did you know that one of NASA’s Great Observatories in the US is named after a nephew of Indian physicist and Nobel laureate Sir C V Raman? It’s called the ‘Chandra X-Ray Observatory’ after mathematician and astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, an Indian-American who too, like his uncle, won the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1983.

Did you know that one of India’s most famous astrophysicists gave the country its National Calendar? Meghnad Saha headed the team that took the 30-odd calendars that were being followed in India at the time, and crunched and correlated all those dates, celestial events, festivals and auspicious days, to come up with one single calendar – the Indian National Calendar. Adopted in 1952, it was meant to be a uniform calendar for pan-India use. It is the official calendar used by the Government of India.

Did you know that Eulie Chowdhury was one of India’s first women architects? She was a part of Le Corbusier’s team that designed Chandigarh from 1951 to 1963 and she later designed and built many of the city’s iconic buildings on her own steam. She was also the first woman Chief Architect of Chandigarh and Haryana.

For a long time, it was believed that the history of Bombay began with the arrival of the Portuguese in the 16th century CE. But, in 1924, historian V K Rajwade published his version of an old document called Mahikavatichi Bakhar and opened up the history of this great city in ways no one had done before. The Bakhar was a narrative composed in verse and Rajwade’s work bridged the gap between the known history of ancient Sopara of 3rd CE and Portuguese of the 16th century CE.

Did you know that noted Indian politician Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee’s father, Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee, played an important role in shaping the University of Calcutta? ? Popularly known as ‘Banglar Bagh’ (Tiger of Bengal), he was an educator, a jurist and a barrister and only the second Indian Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University. He laid the foundation stone of the University College of Science, Technology and Agriculture (commonly known as Rajabazar Science College) on 27th March 1914. The first batch of students included eminent scientists like S N Bose and Meghnad Saha, while its faculty included Acharya P C Ray and Sir C V Raman.