Chamars are not Hindus, Soumen Dey asserts with high confidence. The man in his 20s is agitated. He is a Kayastha. The ...

When a kettle comes to a boil, it lets out a sound — a shrill whistle that grows louder, sharper, more insistent until ...

Kidderpore, or Khidirpur, is a neighbourhood in South Kolkata named after Khidr, the guardian saint of the seas for Bengal’s fishing communities. Other than being a filming location of Khakee: The ...

Named after Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar - a visionary reformer of the Bengal Renaissance - it was built to ease traffic on the iconic Howrah Bridge, about 8 kilometres away. Today ...

The ‘Bengal Renaissance’, as the 19th century reform movements in the region is popularly called, had its major weakness in the fact that it did not focus on caste at all. “At the same time it did not ...

Political tensions escalate in Bengal's Murshidabad as Trinamool Congress and BJP clash over ongoing violence. TMC accuses protesters of serving BJP's agenda by disrupting life, while BJP demands ...

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee spoke at Oxford University on women's empowerment in Bengal, but was interrupted by students protesting post-poll violence and a controversial case. She emphasized ...

He contrasted the so-called ‘renaissance' with the more historically sanguine ‘Bengal Renaissance'. The latter, unlike its purported ‘national' counterpart, arose in the early 19th century ...

Khakee The Bengal Chapter review: Second chapter of Neeraj Pandey’s franchise doesn’t start on a promising note. However, it picks up the pace in the middle. Khakee: The Bengal Chapter review ...