In the preface to No Return Address: Partition and Stories of Displacement, Manjira Majumdar asks pertinent questions—Why was Bengal as a province divided several times
His cinema is fondly remembered for its many catchy tunes and the characters brought to life by leading stars, from Raj Kapoor to Amitabh Bachchan.
Jhapan is a unique and age-old Snake festival of agrarian-tribal origin which is celebrated in the month of Shravan (July-August) in different villages of West
They say forgetting will render you free,/But that's not the case with you and me./I like to believe that I have known you long,/But truth
Right from the moment of his capture, Caesar simply refused to behave like a captive. When the pirates told him that they had set his
The mummy itself, a horrid, black, withered thing, like a charred head on a gnarled bush, was lying half out of the case, with its
I was just-a-day old in Bhedaghat where shutters rolled for sights, lights and colors. Histories and true-to-life stories were wisdom of the roads. The town
The Sundarban National Park, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (declared in 1987). It is a biosphere reserve, national park and tiger reserve with a
He has created a community educational and medical haven in the heart of Tikiapara, Howrah, and mobilized a movement for social change in an extremely
A few years back Fatima came to Kolkata in search of her roots. Her grandfather Mohamed Musa had migrated to the USA from a village
A pale yellow light, stirring dust motes/Fragrant, playful, brushes across my face/The air cooler, brighter, rain drop fresh/Cobwebs quivering, released from dark corners
When my daughter was still in elementary school and lived under the same roof with me, she gave me a letter. She laid it on
Koral Dasgupta is an author with a mission. Her mission is to present the stories of the Pancha Kanyas and the five Satis depicted in
Clay sculptors of Sendra, a village in Bankura District of West-Bengal are a striving community, living in extreme economic hardship. Their tools are in a
The phrase “as white as snow” came to my mind and I guessed that it must have originated from Finland. The journey to our temporary
Suddenly, from out of nowhere, a flock of pink colored children of God made a dash and descended the stairs of heaven, landed, and settled
