For the last seven years Santanu Chowdhury has been trying to preach the gospel of e-books. He’s gone around College Street, Kolkata’s legendary Boi-para or neighbourhood of books, meeting Bengali ...

Women, Muslims, backward classes, Dalits and tribals must be welcomed by the bhadralok, insisted Alapan Bandyopadhyay, ...

On a lazy English Autumn day last year, I was researching in the British Library in London, a gem of a place for knowledge. And while delving in the topic known as “ the golden age of Spanish ...

What if you had to read a Kakababu or Feluda story and get marks for reviewing it as part of a test in school? Saswat Banerjee, a Class IX student, said: “I’ve been a member of the club since Class VI ...

Growing up in our part of the world in the second half of the 20th century, and fed on a diet of popular fiction, comic books, TV "nature" documentaries and Hollywood films, who amongst us did not ...

In a nearly-empty Kolkata theatre, watching a mortal man performing all sorts of miracles on the big screen—from flying over enemy defence lines while riding on his horse and breaking a lion’s jaws ...

Who should win Nobel Prize for literature 2022? Here is a list of 11 authors to choose from. Kolkata: Reclaiming the definition of what is generally known as an “E-book”, two technocrats and a digital ...

Cover of 'Shunya Pather Mallika'; and (right) Bengali author Smaranjit Chakraborty who won the Ananda Purashkar 1431 (2025). (Author photo by SNM Abdi) At 48, Smaranjit Chakraborty, the recipient of ...

Some 1,000 km inland from Sydney, over the Blue Mountains, past the trees that drink the tributaries of the Darling River, there stands a little, red mosque. It marks where the desert begins. The ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. By now, it’s an old joke: Molière’s Bourgeois Gentilhomme discovers that he has been speaking something called ...