For the West Bengali bhadralok (or whatever remains of them), East Bengal continues to represent vastly different things to different people: a...

The Gregorian calendar says it is January now, so for a very many people, it is a new year. One near-constant thing about new year days, birthdays,...

Many had assembled in New Delhi to hear the Supreme Court judgement on the case of Suresh Kumar Koushal & Ors. v. Naz Foundation & Ors.(SLP...

Mainstream India, has typically been those parts of the Union where the Indian Army is not actively deployed at present. Naturally, the contour of...

If you are one of those who think that English language television channels headquartered in and around Delhi present a reliable picture of the...

In my childhood years in urban Bengal, ‘Boshe Aanko’ (sit and draw) painting competitions were a rage among the pre-teens. Anecdotes gathered from...

In the most murderous attack on what is left of the ever-terrorised Christian population in Pakistan, Islamic terrorists killed at least 85...

As world rankings of universities are being discussed, we are back to that sad truth. No university in the subcontinent figures in the top 200...

For a few years now, full-time faculty at government colleges and universities have been drawing salaries based on the recommendations of the sixth...

Progress is a curious word. Of the many conceptions of progress, the one I have found most useful was framed by that great shaman of our times, Ashis...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of India has found that Ishrat Jahan, the 19-year-old woman killed in an ‘encounter’ in 2004, was not a...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of India has found that Ishrat Jahan, the 19-year-old woman killed in an ‘encounter’ in 2004, was not a...