On August 24, 1690, after a lavish offering at an old temple of Kali, Job Charnock, the founder of Calcutta, pitched his tents on the banks of the Hooghly, exactly on the site of charred ruins of ...

Calcutta subverted the concept of colonial modernity that was sought to be imposed by the British rulers. By using the same ...

Twenty-two years after I left Calcutta for good, I suspect some of my memories of the city are planted. I keep the ones I like. And so I am six years old, my fingers held vice-like by my uncle the ...

Calcutta/Kolkata seethes with haunting memories of the British impact on India. In the quiet chambers of Jorasanko, you grasp that the cultural current could often flow the other way. More about ...

On page 450, exactly halfway through Great Eastern Hotel, Ruchir Joshi’s 900-page behemoth of a historical novel, I stopped reading the book to assess what I felt about it.. Even at this point ...

London, April 20: Calcutta has the lowest crime rate in the world because of the civilising effect of books, Amartya Sen said today in his keynote opening address at the London Book Fair. Even by ...

The book records Chaudhuri's experiences during his first two years in the city after moving from England. Rather than focus on Calcutta's lower depths, he brings out its true diversity.

On page 450, exactly halfway through Great Eastern Hotel, Ruchir Joshi’s 900-page behemoth of a historical novel, I stopped reading the book to assess what I felt about it. Even at this ...

Calcutta, Dec. 12 : Calcutta, Dec. 12 : Five minutes to eight, it's pack-up time at Academy of Fine Arts, where the 10-day-long British Book Fair draws to a quiet close. Aveek Sen, a middle-aged ...