We have come to know of ‘Bengali’ as masculine, urban, and that often used term: “cultured”. Within these three terms, essentially, all of Bengal is...

Uta “Ammi…went to meet Aapa Jaan in Karachi several times. In those days many relatives and neighbours went to visit their loved ones in Pakistan; it...

There was a moment in Charulata, the opening scene in fact,  where the “lonely wife” who makes up the central protagonist in both Tagore’s original...

You dream of a house. Everytime you find yourself drifting off to sleep, you know it will be so. You dream of the same house, each time, a different...

It is always a grand effort to speak of a historical text. especially when it comes to reviewing one. Don’t get me wrong. I do not, for instance, mean...

I was at invigilation duty, and if any of you find it hard to imagine what that’s like, imagine a cold hard screwdriver, named monotony, digging deep...

“One man’s quest for a more meaningful life”, the subtitle, basically sets you up with an expectation for  a drug induced man’s journey into...

Sometimes, we have words, that can only be written when the time is right, when we find ourselves cornered into the space of writing by forces beyond...

Jehangir <g data-gr-id="56">Rangoonwalla</g> circulates memory. In his second-hand “bookstore” on the corner of one of the myriad bylanes...

Who doesn’t like a book fair? Don’t answer that. Chances are that if you’re reading this, you do. The book fair at Pragati Maidan happens to be where...

Truth itself is strange, and as they say in English, stranger than fiction. A curious thing happened the other day.<g...

There was virtually nothing on my Facebook mini-feed initially relating to the attacks on the Kenyan university in Garissa. Did that mean that it did...