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.
Classical economists, Adam Smith and David Ricardo, had laid the intellectual foundations for this assumption much earlier with their theories of absolute and comparative advantage, showing how nations benefit from specialising and trading rather than competing.
When Rang De Basanti opened on 26 January 2006, I was in a theatre in Patna watching a very fidgety, very confused audience reacting as we all did to unfamiliar experiences, with embarrassment and heckling.
In an innovative exercise, The Tagore Institute of Peace Studies (TIPS) created a game in which young minds could attempt conflict resolution through discourse.
Rupa Publications is turning 90 this year. Amongst the pioneers of India’s publishing industry, dealing namely in English-language literature (both fiction and non-fiction), it began its journey, humbly, on the sidewalks of Calcutta’s (now Kolkata) New Market area in 1936 and has reached the pinnacles of renown.
Take a classic like Sholay or The Godfather – they're not just stories; they've become part of how we talk, dress, and even think.
