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Feb 7

Purnima Sinha (1927 – 2015) was a physicist and one of the first Bengali women to earn a doctorate in physics in the field of x-ray crystallography of clay minerals. She was born to Dr. Nares Chandra Sengupta, a constitutional lawyer and progressive writer. She married the anthropologist Surajit Chandra Sinha, later vice-chancellor, Visva-Bharati University.

After obtaining her MSc degree in Physics from Calcutta University, she joined for her PhD work in 1951 under the legendary physicist Satyendra Nath Bose. Purchase of equipment in the early years of independence was difficult and she built instruments with components available in the open market. She recalled “we had put together our X-ray equipment from the World War II surplus gathered in the lane behind Dr Bidhan Roy’s house”. Purnima’s PhD research was entitled “X-ray & Differential Thermal Analysis of Indian Clays”. She also worked with Nobel Laureate physicist Paul M Dirac when he was a visitor to Calcutta University in 1954.

In the early 1960s, Purnima worked on the origin of life with clay as the substrate in the Biophysics Group at Stanford University, California. She observed that the spacing in the clay structure, determined through X-ray studies, corresponded to the pitch of the DNA double helix. Since then, she remained interested in biophysics till the end of her life. After her return from the USA in 1964 she spent most of her professional life at the CGCRI, Kolkata till she took voluntary retirement in 1986.

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Jan 6

Pafulla Chandra Roy (1861 – 16 June 1944) was an Indian chemist, educationist, historian, industrialist and philanthropist. A product of the Bengali Renaissance, he was the founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, India's first pharmaceutical company. He is the author of A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century (1902).

The book draws uses primary sources to deal with a ranage of subjects inlcuding, metallury and rare-earths extraction. Topis include Colophon - The Rasas - Abhra - Vaikranta -copper Pyrites Vimala - Silajatu - Sasyaka - Extraction of Copper - Chapala Rasaka - Extraction of Zinc - The Uparasas or Inferior Rasas Sulphur Gairika Kasisa Tuvari Talaka Manassila - The Afijanas - The Common Rasas - Navasara and other Rasas - The Gems - Vajram - General Process of Reducing Gems to Ashes - On Metals - Gold - Silver - Copper - I on - Tin - Lead Brass - Bell Metal, &c. - Initiation into Discipleship - On the Laboratory - Tests for Killed Iron - Antimony

Prafulla Babu was born in the village of Raruli-Katipara, then in Jessore District (now Dighalia, Khulna), and was the third child and son of Harish Chandra Raychowdhury. Ray's great-grandfather Maniklal had been a dewan under the British East India Company's district collector of Krishnanagar and Jessore. The ruins of the Ray Bari still exist.

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Mar 28, 2023

Meet Nelson Wang, the inventor of Indian-Chinese the "Chicken Manchurian". Wang was born in Calcutta's Tangra China Town in 1950. When his family moved to Canada in the 1977, Nelson decided to move to Bombay.
#ChickenManchurian #Chinese #Cricket #Foodie

Strating out as a nightclub limbo dancer and fire-eater, he found a job was as a cook at Frederick's, a Chinese restaurant in Colaba and where the legendary Raj Singh Dungarpur, then President of the Cricket Club of India was a regular.

Frederick's was asked if could cater to Cricket Club of India, but turned down the offer. So Nelson took on the challenge. It was here that Dungarpur, who liked fried food asked Nelson for something spicy and crunchy with a gravy.

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Mar 27, 2023

INS Kamorta P177, later P77 was the first Peyta ASW ship commissioned into the Indian Navy on21 November 1968. In 1971 she served in the Eastern fleet as part of its ASW screen and intercepted blockade runners. She was decomissioned in 1991.

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INS Kamorta P28 is the leadship of the Project-28 ASW corvettes built by @OfficialGRSE and commissioned in 2014. He is armed with OTO Melara SRGM, AK-630M CIWS, RBU-6000 and Torpedo tubes. She will be oufitted with a 50km VL SRSAM from DRDO.

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Rupak Chattopadhyay

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Mar 25, 2023

INS Nipat K86 was a Vidyut-class (Osa-1) missile boat commissioned in 1971. She was part of the Strike Group for Op Trident. She fired P-15 missiles against the ammunition transport MV Venus Challenger, sinking it. She was decomissioned in 1988.

The second INS Nipat K42 was a Veer (Tarantul class) missile corvette comissioned in 1988. Armed with P-20M missiles, she remained in service until 2016.

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Rupak Chattopadhyay

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Aug 29, 2022

Gurkaniya Christians.
In 1595, mystic Padishah Akbar summoned a Jesuit mission to his court in Agra. However, by the time the mission with Jerónimo de Ezpeleta y Goñi and Emmanuel Pinheiro arrived, the Emperor was on the move. So they arrived in Lahore arrived on May 5, 1595.

Father Jerónimo would travel with the Emperor on his campaigns and given Akbar's interest in religion, he hoped that the Emperor would convert to Christianity. During Akbar's lifetime Christian themed art would flourish at court but Akbar remained a distant prize.

When Jehangir succeeded his father, he maintained his father's sense of curiosity. He welcomed Christian missionaries and the discussion of religion within his court continued.

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