Kolkata’s Park Street is the most iconic road in India. Bridging the gap between Warren Hastings and Buddhadeb, it is a celebration, and, alas, a tragedy.

It was an Anglo-Indian project of joyous determination. Today, it’s a picture of desolation with little of the festive spirit that once kindled so brightly.

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s proposal to turn this college into a university is being opposed, predictably, by Bengal’s communist ancien regime.

This water tank was commissioned in 1911, but the Kolkata Municipal Corporation went ahead and celebrated its centenary this year. Here’s why they could not wait for two more years

A tea planter in Darjeeling is training workers to take over his estate. And he is not doing it for fear of insurgency—it’s because that’s the only way to grow the best tea in the world.

In this northeastern hill town, you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. It’s Bob Dylan all the way.

Tibetan flags may have fluttered in Tawang briefly before the Dalai Lama’s visit, but the local people are keener than ever to assert their Indian identity

From a prosperous kingdom to statehood to a ‘failed’ state, Manipur’s history of neglect is complete

At a temple in Kolkata, Chinese expats appease the goddess with offerings of momos and noodles

What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow. If this old saying retains some relevance today, it’s as a way to place the tragedy of the state’s slide in perspective.