1 (Demonstrator, Department of Pathology, Medical College, Kolkata-73, WBUHS, India) 2 (Professor, Department of Pathology, Malda Medical College, Malda, WBUHS, India) 3 (Assistant Director of Medical Education, Swasthya Bhawan, Kolkata-91, India) 4 (Senior Resident, Chittaranjan National cancer Institute, Kolkata-26, India) 5 (Assistant Professor, Department of Obstretics & Gynaecology, KPC Me...

We present here a report from Kolkata, India, which illustrates the persisting deeply anchored roots of stigma in leprosy and our failure to make a significant change in the situation. Kolkata is a metropolitan city in West Bengal, which is one of the states with a persisting leprosy problem (10 321 new cases were detected in 2010–2011). It is the third most populous metropolitan urban area in ...

UA-Magazine he use of municipal wastewater to fertilize ponds began in Kolkata in the thirty’s, and it is now perhaps the largest wastewater fed aquaculture system in the world (Nair, 1944; Jhingran, 1991). Kolkata is a metropolis of 14 million inhabitants. The Kolkata periurban area especially where wastewater fish farming is practiced supports the livelihood of a large number of people throug...

1 Prasanta K. Panigrahi, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (Kolkata), Salt Lake City, Kolkata 700 106, India and Physical Research Laboratory, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad 380 009, India. ‖∗∗ 2 Sayantan Ghosh, The Insitute of Mathematical Sciences, C.I.T. Campus, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, India.†† 3 P. Manimaran, Center for Mathematical Sciences, C R Rao Advanced Institute of Mathem...

The rapid population growth and increasing economic activities have resulted in the tremendous growth of motor vehicles which is considered one of the primary factors responsible for increasing road accidents in many metropolitan cities of developing countries, including Kolkata, India. In this paper an assessment of the current level of road safety in Kolkata is made utilizing data obtained fr...

The city of Kolkata, the State Capital of West Bengal is jolted by earthquakes time and again from the tectonic regimes of the Central Himalaya, highly seismogenic Northeast India and the active tectonics of Bengal Basin which is a pericratonic tertiary basin on which the City is located. Earthquake disaster mitigation and management necessitates seismic hazard assessment for the generation of ...

 SIR-C quad-pol MLC data acquired in 1994 and ALOS PALSAR quad-pol and dual pol SLC data acquired in 2006 and 2007 over several Indian sites have been processed using PolSARpro software for classification of various land features. The land features include ocean, clear water, settlements, agriculture fields, arid lands, grown and young forest, hilly terrain, mangrove forest, etc. Both unsuperv...

In this article, we offer a new concept of the “queer creative city”, through critical examination how regional queer Bengali film culture has emerged in Kolkata as result convergence certain urban policies, political organising and cultural activism.We explore two festivals – Siddharth Gautam Film Festival Dialogues, both having very significant impact transforming LGBTQ + lives Kolkata. Throu...

Kavita Jain, Abhishek Dasgupta and Gayatri Das Theoretical Sciences Unit and Evolutionary and Organismal Biology Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur P.O., Bangalore 560064, India Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Block HC, Salt Lake City, Kolkata 700106, India and Theoretical Sciences Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Rese...

Howrah, the sister city of Kolkata displays a continuous transformation of its urban land use pattern since its inception near about 500 years ago. Transport, being the most significant parameter of urban land use change, depending upon which urban structure develops, is of great importance in this context. Howrah city in Howrah district is well known for its National Railway Terminus which bri...