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Robotic Relief

These days I often don’t find the time to immediately respond to text or Whatsapp messages, far less answer emails at once.

I Love Vienna

Falling asleep in an express train while returning to Kolkata after a trip outside of West Bengal, listening to that “jhak jhak'' sound of the wheels on track was like my mother swaying me to sleep in her arms after playing all day.

Postcard from Prague

There are some cities that impress you immediately with their grandeur, and then there are cities that quietly cast a spell upon your soul. Prague belongs to the latter category.

Bridging Cultures Through Canvas

An Opening Steeped in Artistic Gravitas As dusk settled over Vidyasagar Udyan at College Square, the 32nd International Art and Sculpture Festival unfolded with a quiet grandeur that only Kolkata’s cultural ethos can sustain.

When the Seasons Sang in Kolkata

I often feel that the Kolkata of my youth no longer exists except in memory. Yet whenever I think of that lost city, I remember its seasons first—as though they were movements in a grand symphony that shaped the emotional rhythm of my life.

Saffron surge sweeps the east

Nothing short of a saffron wave has gripped eastern India in recent years, and it was emphatically confirmed by the sweeping victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal and the consolidation of political power in Assam, where the nationalist party secured a consecutive third-term electoral victory.