Books
The Way of Some Flesh
A review of David Szalay’s Booker Prize-winning novel Flesh, exploring sex, chance, work, emotional detachment, guilt, desire, and life’s randomness.
July 7, 2026
A review of David Szalay’s Booker Prize-winning novel Flesh, exploring sex, chance, work, emotional detachment, guilt, desire, and life’s randomness.
A journey through the Vatican Museums, exploring five centuries of art, faith, power, and history, from ancient Egypt to Renaissance masterpieces.
A traveler encounters jackals who beg him to end their ancient conflict with Arabs, revealing prejudice, obsession, and futility.
Adoor Gopalakrishnan pioneered Malayalam New Wave cinema, directing 12 feature films portraying Kerala’s society, culture, and human experiences across decades.
These photographs do not seek spectacle; instead, they linger on gestures, glances, pauses, and fleeting moments where life reveals itself without performance.
Yet the story celebrated on Boston’s waterfront did not begin in Boston. Its roots reach thousands of miles away, across oceans, to Bengal.
Persepolis is not a book about a country that is only darkness. It is a book about a family that refused to be only darkness.
To honor his memory, his birthday, 29th June, is celebrated annually across the country as National Statistics Day.
She became the first deaf-blind person to graduate from college. Helen Keller showed the world that disability doesn’t define a person’s potential.
The Cloud celebrates nature’s eternal cycle, portraying a cloud as an immortal force of transformation, renewal, beauty, and boundless imaginative power.
Though India has never played in the FIFA World Cup, Kolkata’s passionate fans transform streets into vibrant football art galleries.
Over time, Bande Mataram became the war cry of Bengali revolutionaries.
