The American City Bengal Forgot
How the United States quietly built a functioning American township on the Hooghly to sustain victory in Asia during the Second World War
How the United States quietly built a functioning American township on the Hooghly to sustain victory in Asia during the Second World War
We are all caught up in our private traps,” as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller Psycho would have audiences believe.
A South Kolkata residential society organizes a spiritual festival on a stormy evening to commemorate the blessings of Lord Jagannath Bin hari kripa trina nahi dole….
Selling a mass-produced synthetic stringed instrument as an authentic Tripura Sarinda is now a punishable offense just like counterfeiting a luxury watch is.
It is heartening to see that steps are actually being taken to address the issue of littering in public places.
Trees form bonds that connect countries and civilisations, cultures and histories. Their seeds are carried by birds and bees, bats and flies, monkeys and man across continents and seas,they are the visible expressions of a living and vibrant ecosystem, nature in its crowning glory.
During interviews, the one question I always ask politicians who are contesting elections is what his or her position on the topic of ‘Nature’ is. I have noticed that this catches them a little off guard, possibly because unlike education or employment, environment is yet to be considered an issue of top priority as far as would be policy makers are concerned.
In this shared reflection, Sneha Das, Aishmita Manna and Vedanta Dasgupta return to the restless body as the first language of faith, where, as William Blake reminds us, without contraries there is no progression, and movement holds ecstasy and dissent, surrender and subversion, crossing the boundaries between self and other, devotion and defiance, masculine and feminine, suggesting that long before we learned to divide the world, we had already begun to move through it.
In an age of fleeting attention spans and vanishing intellectual anchors, Sri Aurobindo returns to the foreground through a significant new publication that seeks to reclaim his place in contemporary thought.
With Assam completing the largely peaceful, single-phase polling on 9 April 2026 to elect 126 representatives to the State Legislative Assembly, the focus shifts to the probable outcome, as both the ruling and opposition parties are claiming the result in their favour, citing an all-time high voter turnout (85.96 per cent) in the north-eastern state.
