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.
The story starts with Durga Puja versus Diwali, Rosogolla versus Ghevar, Panjabi/Sari versus Sherwani/Salwar Kameez and continues forever with veg, non-veg, Alpona, Rangoli, Lokkhir Pachali, Hanuman Chalisa and most importantly art versus business, needless to say which party favors which aspect of life.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) apps, devices, services influence billions of lives daily in 2025, a quantum leap from 314 million users in 2024.
The lines have never ceased to haunt me since I came across them, as a child, possibly in some version of the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes.
Releasing a political memoir on former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Delhi earlier this month, Minister Nitin Gadkari recalled Vajpayee as a strong practitioner of “politics of conviction over politics of convenience”.
Yesterday, I revisited Polignano a Mare, a quaint coastal town in the Puglia region of southern Italy. The train ride from Monopoli, where I am currently staying, took barely five minutes — yet it felt like being transported to another time, another place.
