Shantiniketan still marks the season with Barsha Mangal, an entire ritual of songs to be sung while it rains.
History shows that every major scientific revolution eventually reshapes civilisation. The steam engine transformed industry. Electricity transformed society.
Kolkata in the rain feels like a different city. Somehow, Kolkata finds a strange kind of peace.
Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy was very prominently displayed followed by Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s The Odyssey.
Driven by both humanitarian concern and imperial paternalism, officials pursued major social reforms, some addressing practices that Indians themselves increasingly questioned.
In Bengal, the monsoon is as much a season of rain as it is of food.
