“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself”: So reads one of the great opening lines in British literature, the ...

The book cover is eerily poetic — a solitary vessel with patches of foliage floating on a sea of deep blue scattered with ...

Steve Mills has been collecting secondhand books in England to reawaken lost memories. His search revealed more about his ...

Calcutta’s ‘neighborhood of books’ Through summer’s sweltering heat, through the monsoon season’s torrential downpours and even after the city’s recent accumulation of air-conditioned shopping malls, ...

British Library Crime Classics (116 books)uk, united kingdom, england, english, british, audiobook, drama, murder, mystery, murder mystery, audiobooks, crime, ...

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

Haji Khuda Bukhsh Nabi Bukhsh, in Calcutta, has continued to sell attar for over 200 years, holding its ground amid the ...

Firpo’s, which was once the most happening food joint, nightlife haunt and social venue of Kolkata (Calcutta) since the 1920s ...

The aircraft, on its Singapore-London flight, made a perfect take-off for Delhi at 4.30pm. The plane, according to all available reports, was caught in a storm and exploded mid-air.

British jet crashes in Calcutta storm. A BOAC Comet flight from Singapore to London crashed into a paddy field about 40km northwest of Calcutta after taking off during a violent storm on Saturday ...

A supplementary catalogue of Hindi books in the library of the British museum acquired during the years 1893-1912 Bookreader Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter.

There is a curious rightness to marking in Calcutta’s great daily the arrival of a great Calcutta novel. I can’t remember the last time I read a book as grand as Ruchir Joshi’s Great Eastern Hotel.On ...