Dhaenga
A brief extract from Udayan Ghosh’s Khalasitolar Ami Ek Prodigal Khalasi (“I’m Khalasitola’s Prodigal Coolie”), translat......
12 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......
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Farewell, Chandan
One of my dearest friends, Prof Chandan Sengupta, sociologist, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, passed away on 9 Se......
12 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......
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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......
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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......
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