
Bengal Sketches – When One Festival Is Another People’s Mourning
Essay reflects contrasting memories of Durga Puja, highlighting Santhal mourning, identity, erased histories, cultural resilience, and coexistence of celebration and grief.

Essay reflects contrasting memories of Durga Puja, highlighting Santhal mourning, identity, erased histories, cultural resilience, and coexistence of celebration and grief.

A volunteer bonds with a migrant child in Japan, revealing identity, language, belonging, and hidden emotional histories within institutional care.

In 1990, Kurosawa received an honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement. By then, his influence stretched from Japan to Hollywood and beyond.

A Pair of Silk Stockings is a short story by 19th century American author Kate Chopin.

Its vast stretches of chalk-white rock formations, sculpted over centuries by wind and sand, resemble giant mushrooms, animals, and abstract shapes.

Bengal’s Durga Puja evolution—from elite zamindar ritual to inclusive community festival celebrating art, devotion, identity, economy, and culture.

The essay warns how AI-driven social media manipulates emotions, harms childhood, fuels comparison, and urges global regulation to protect humanity.

A tram stop in Prague named Koh-i-Noor reveals surprising links between Czech industry, art, pencils, history, and India’s legendary diamond.

But don’t let the snub tell you what this film is worth. Trophies are politics. Homebound is art.

Masan Holi in Varanasi celebrates Holi with ashes from cremation grounds, symbolizing life, death, detachment, and spiritual liberation.

In colonial Calcutta, far from the traditional centers of Urdu poetry and prose, a small newspaper quietly appeared, carrying enormous dreams.

Women caregivers supporting Kolkata’s elderly amid nuclear families, migration, economic pressures, workplace struggles, changing family structures, and dignity.