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.
30 December 2009It 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.
23 December 2009Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s proposal to turn this college into a university is being opposed, predictably, by Bengal’s communist ancien regime.
10 December 2009This 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
02 December 2009A 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.
02 December 2009In this northeastern hill town, you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. It’s Bob Dylan all the way.
18 November 2009Tibetan 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
12 November 2009From a prosperous kingdom to statehood to a ‘failed’ state, Manipur’s history of neglect is complete
29 October 2009At a temple in Kolkata, Chinese expats appease the goddess with offerings of momos and noodles
22 October 2009What 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.
21 October 2009CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
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