The team’s objective was to create a time travel experience to access Bengal’s history. The broad heads were Bengal Partition, Museum, Border, Subaltern space and
Bengal’s cult of the 'terrifying mother' has fascinated foreign scholars like Rachel Fell McDermott, Wendy Doniger, Barbara Walker and numerous others, as well as countless
Count Dracula’s act of turning a human into a vampire is intensely sexual. It is, perhaps, that very idea that led to the conception of
A back-to-back rereading of Asimov’s Foundation trilogy and Karl Marx’s The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte in terms of their political visions is not as
The propensity to prevent potentially successful people from attaining success and the predilection to begrudge, resent, or mock people who succeed, who have talent, who
Many other fascinating trivia are revealed in the book. It's intriguing to learn how Indians helped Zanzibar become a regional commerce powerhouse by connecting Zanzibar
And even though a compliment might be a little thing, a fake compliment can do more damage than one can imagine. Since honesty is an
Gandhi did not condemn the scientific temper of the West, but he objected to the use of scientific discoveries against humanity. In fact, as history
Now the pandals are ready and the atmosphere festive and kinetic. The city is abuzz with excitement about the myriad themed installations that house Maa
Bengali cuisine is marked by certain typicality…first, there are no set masalas for preparing a particular dish, and second, vegetables have to be cut in
what is a family? What are its foundations? Are families just about what is depicted in ‘saas-bahu’ television series and Bollywood masala movies? Perhaps, it
The Ajanta Caves of Maharashtra are known for their stunning sculpture that date back to the 2nd century BCE.
My transformation into an avid gardener is a tough act to follow. I grew up in the urban jungle of Kolkata, a dirty, noisy, grey,
The Keralite festival of Onam is built around the myth of King Mahabali and Vaman avatar. The dynamics of forceful subjugation and the good and
Poet, critic and translator Sanjukta Dasgupta is a familiar name in the Kolkata literary circuit. The Professor and former Head of the Department of English
Significance is something we tie so much to/But from up here/All I see are flickering lights/And ants crawling by
