Natalia Gerasimova

In the cultural history of Bengal, there are two names that continue to resonate like different tones within a single, sustained melody: Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam. They are often described in contrast—one as a contemplative thinker, a poet of inwardness and harmony; the other as a rebel, a voice of fire, urgency, and resistance. Yet this contrast, while useful, is incomplete.

On Diplomatic Worker’s Day, Russia-India history merits remembrance — Konstantin Nabokov, Calcutta’s first Russian Consul General, embodied diplomacy as poetic culture; writes Natalia Gerasimova Every year on February 10, Russia marks Diplomatic Worker’s Day, a professional holiday honoring those who serve the country in foreign affairs.