Dhaenga
A brief extract from Udayan Ghosh’s Khalasitolar Ami Ek Prodigal Khalasi (“I’m Khalasitola’s Prodigal Coolie”), translat......
11 Years Ago
200 Killings a Month
A brief extract from Debashis Bhattacharya’s Shottorer Dinguli ("The Days of the Seventies") translated by me. During the months of M......
11 Years Ago
Farewell, Chandan
One of my dearest friends, Prof Chandan Sengupta, sociologist, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, passed away on 9 Se......
11 Years Ago
I Love IPL
SC: Are you all backing Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL? How do they play cricket in this heat? KKR is in the play-off places. BA: Kolkat......
11 Years Ago
Here to stay!
Today's newspaper reports that the Mayor of Calcutta, Sovan Chatterjee announced yesterday that fresh licences would be issued to hand-pul......
12 Years Ago
Some things never change ...
Concerned New Yorkers protest against slums at the city's May Day Parade in 1936 . See more pictures from New York city in the 1940s her......
12 Years Ago
