Kolkata is a modern city and these houses are emblems of the city’s modernity… they are as important as the painting, literature and music of Bengal.” For Chaudhuri, this is an old battle.

My Kolkata spoke to Manish Golder, co-founder of Calcutta Houses, to understand the objective of documenting Kolkata’s changing cityscape through its houses and the initial challenges of doing so, to ...

Jail for inaction on old houses in Calcutta CMC mulls act tweak on crumbling buildings. Subhajoy Roy Calcutta Published 24.10.19, 08:14 PM A collapsed building in Syakrapara Lane in Bowbazar Picture ...

In north Kolkata’s Thakurdas Palit Lane is an even more quaint house with a thakurdalan. The 200-year-old house belongs to the Saha family. After years of neglect, the house was in a shambles ...

Serendipity and good old-fashioned luck rather than brand building and revenue models were the edifice of Byloom, the store. In fact, none of us had set out looking for an old home for the store ...

As it lay abandoned, awaiting its fate, Kolkata-based filmmaker Rohan Dewanjea, who spent 25 years in the house, believes the building symbolises the perpetual transitoriness of urban existence.

The author said the aim is to create the right conditions for conservation and for introduction of legislation to protect old houses. Tapati Guha Thakurta, Director, Centre for Studies in Social ...

Bonedi baris form an integral part of Kolkata’s cultural fabric, and some are even 200-250 years old. This Janmashtami, we look at the intricacies and nuances of these families and the rituals ...