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

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

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 ...

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee accused BJP of orchestrating communal riots in Murshidabad over the new waqf law, alleging the involvement of central agencies and Home Minister Amit Shah.

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 ...