Aspiring doctor Subodh Biswas sold pens in Kolkata till he got a scholarship to a medical college.

Seven thousand fanatical Christians have boycotted the census because they believe Nilekani’s unique identification project is Satan’s plan to rule the world.

A circus in Burdwan is desperate to keep a female elephant from hearing its wild former lover’s calls.

A catalogue of books or an art catalogue? It’s all the same when it comes to the one created by Seagull Books.

In 1857, the Raj erased a town of 5,000 people, in a bloody massacre, to punish them for killing six British officers.

When you have around 145,000 street vendors serving over 230 varieties of dishes—tasty, hygienic and dirt cheap—to nearly 10 million customers daily, it is a phenomenon by itself.

At Burdwan, beggars make so much money that they are lending it out at low interest rates.

The despondent Left in West Bengal may be in for some real trouble real soon. The Congress and Trinamool are working towards an alliance to oust them from power in the state.

Chongkham’s last elephant’s tusks were stolen recently, plunging the village into mourning.

Some of them haven’t even attained puberty. But Maoists think nothing of brainwashing them to their cause and thrusting guns in their unsuspecting hands, using them to fight armed forces, lay land mines and inform on their kith and kin. This is the story of thousands of lost childhoods.

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…