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.
In the unfolding environmental history of the twenty–first century, few institutions operate as quietly yet as decisively as the Indian Forest Service (IFS).
A TV commercial for American Eagles brand jeans, featuring blue-eyed blonde actress Sydney Sweeney, caused a storm of controversies in the US. Many people complained that the tagline “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans” really implies that Sydney has great genes ("jeans" being homophonic with “genes”) – thus promoting white supremacy.
Observed annually on April 12, the date marks the birth anniversary of late Safdar Hashmi, the eminent activist and playwright who was killed in a brutal attack while performing a street play on January 1, 1989.
Naples does not reveal itself gently. It arrives all at once—loud, unruly, unapologetically alive.
As the party fields defectors and “parachute candidates” for the 2026 Assembly elections, the question grows louder: is the Congress rebuilding its base in Assam or dismantling its own organisational foundation? For the upcoming Assam Assembly election, the Indian National Congress was supposed to signal preparedness, unity and political momentum.
