Raja Chakraborty’s creative repertoire includes verse collections in both English and Bengali. While...

In early 2014, Arundhati Roy wrote a lengthy introduction to one of B.R. Ambedkar’s most powerful...

Don is the only Hindi film directed by Chandra Barot. Both Don and Barot have interesting histories....

After China banned the opium trade, Parsis diversified into the cotton and jute-manufacturing...

Mrinal Talukdar’s new book Post-Colonial Assam (1947-2019) covers 72 years of Assam’s political...

After Sheikh Mujibur Rahman won an electoral mandate to become the Prime Minister of Pakistan, the...

“My cancer which I jokingly call The Caner (you have to laugh or as they say, you’ll die) – is a...

Filmmakers of world cinema always say that the direction of a film lies in its characterisation....

Sometimes, a book reminds us of poetry’s real force in the world – a strength to be reckoned with....

Rabindranath Tagore’s Dui Bon or Two Sisters is a novella originally written in Bengali. Its...

The book’s cover is a collage of eight faces of those who were at the helm in Pakistan since its...

Recollecting a conflict-ridden chapter in the history of Shillong, author Nilanjan P Choudhury draws...