Vidyasagar was responsible for lot of reforms in the educational system in India in the 19th century.

Vidyasagar is often known as the father of modern Bangla.

The most cited example was when Vidyasagar helped Michael Madhusudan Dutt, one of the most notable poets of 19th century Bengal, when the latter was facing starvation, mainly due to his reckless lifestyle.

He was removed to Calcutta at the age of nine, was admitted into the Sanskrit College, and carried on his studies in the midst of privations and extreme poverty.

In 1839 he obtained the title of Vidyasagar (= " Ocean of learning ") after passing a brilliant examination, and in 1850 was appointed head pandit of Fort William College.

Ram Mohan Roy, the religious reformer of Bengal, created the literary prose of Bengal early in the igth century by his numerous translations and religious tracts; and Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar and his fellow-worker, Akha.y Kumar Datta, added to its power and beauty about the middle of that century.

When Vidyasagar went to visit the Principal of the Hindu College, he was offended by Mr Kerr's rude manners as the latter sat in his chair in a posture resting his booted feet on the desk in a complete disregard for showing any courtesy to his native visitor.

Although Vidyasagar cannot be judged as one of the best pure literary figures of Bengal, for he mostly devoted his writing reformist literature and text books, his pioneering work in Bengali prose certainly deserves the very best of appreciation.

Vidyasagar sent this in a 'hurry' before he went on holiday and wrote "If required I shall be happy to send in an official and consequently a more formal letter on the subject after the termination of the holiday."

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Vidyasagar felt within himself a powerful spark of humanism, no sign of which he perceived among his fellow beings who moved around him.

Vidyasagar was severely critical of the orthodox, ritual-based, nonhumanistic Hinduism.

Vidyasagar said in his report, "The study of the eight tattwas ought to be discontinued." He was eager to modernise the education system.

The Parishat itself has a remarkable clay likeness of Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar, complete with grave expression, that was executed by Jadunath Pal at the end of 19th Century and had been in the possession of the Tagores of Jorasanko.

Vidyasagar Smritimandir possesses a full-length wooden likeness of Vidyasagar that was carved out of a single block of wood at the house of former chief minister Prafulla Chandra Sen. It was executed by Kshetromohan Bhaskar, who was provided with his bread and board in return.

Though Vidyasagar was a pucca Bengali in his dress, he was a strict disciplinarian like many Englishmen of his time.

The simmering differences between the SNDP general secretary, Vellappally Natesan, and the president, C. Vidyasagar, came out in the open today with the latter accusing the general secretary of autocratic style of functioning and lack of transparency in the financial dealings of the institution.

Vidyasagar said he had written to the union-level functionaries and director board members sharing his concerns over the state of affairs in the institution.

Vidyasagar said he was against a policy of `Hindu unity' and was for unity among the backward communities as the former would only help dilute the backward agenda.

State police sources said that Marthand Rao, a cousin of Vidyasagar Rao's wife Vinoda Devi, was kidnapped from his native village Korem in Boinpally mandal in the extremist-affected Karimnagar district.

Vidyasagar Rao himself was scheduled to visit the village on Friday morning to participate in the celebrations.

Vidyasagar Rao hails from the same district and figures in the hit list of the outlawed People's War Group of Naxalites.

In Vidyasagar, the prominent candidates are Anadi Sahu (CPI-M), Mohua Mondal (Congress) and Ashok Sinha (Bharatiya Janata Party) who has the backing of the Trinamool Congress.

The by-poll in Nabadwip (Nadia district) was necessitated by the death of Trinamool Congress MP Ananda Mohan Biswas while the passing away of CPI-M lawmaker Laxmi Dey prompted the by-poll to the Vidyasagar seat in Kolkata.

CEO Haque said that the car in which Leader of Opposition Pankaj Banerjee was travelling had been seized at Ranaghat (in Nabadwip) and its driver arrested for plying the vehicle within the constituency without a proper permit from the returning officer.

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Then I came to know that it was by same Vidyasagar and I and started courting malayalam songs.

After the hugely successful "Meesha Madhavan" in the annals of Malayalam cinema, the same team Actor Dileep, Director duo Lal-Jose and Vidyasagar are coming together after a gap of three years in the "Rasikan".

The tune is something exciting and I wish Vidyasagar had made it in Tamil rather than Malayalam.

Dr Vidyasagar's research career began during his undergraduate years at the medical school in Madras, when he and a few fellow-students (including Vilayanur Ramachandran) started dabbling in some experiments at home on binocular vision and movement perception.

After moving to the Division of Psychology at the ANU in 1997, he finally moved to the University of Melbourne in 2002.

Vidyasagar's interests have ranged from the psychophysics of binocular vision (particularly stereopsis) to the neural circuitry underlying the functional properties of visual cortical cells.

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Vidyasagar, A theory of learning and generalization, Springer, 1997.

Vidyasagar, A theory of learning and generalization (Springer, Berlin, New York, 1997).

One of the motivations is to improve the conservatism of the uncertainties of parameters estimated by system identification and another is the application of the Monte Carlo method for robust control problem which can hardly be solved analytically.