Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was a personality whose name we’re all familiar with. ... So deep that he’d study under the street light if it was not possible to arrange for a gas lamp at home.

Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) July 29, 2020 Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's quest for knowledge was such that he used to study under street lights as his family could not afford a gas lamp at home.

In 1891, shortly after the death of Ishwar Chandra ... make Vidyasagar larger than life. The focus shifts to his charitable gestures despite his poverty, his effort to study under the streetlamps ...

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was born as Ishwar ... that he acquired knowledge by initially studying under streetlights. He later became "Vidyasagar" which means “ocean of knowledge”, a name ...

Ishwar Chandra Vidhya Sagar had greatest contribution was to the cause of widow upliftment and girl education in India. He introduced the concept of widow remarriage that was performed in Calcutta ...

As revered as Swami Vivekananda by Bengalis, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar is the 19th century ... to allow non-Brahmin students study there. Across India, he is known as a leading social reformer ...