A Hindu devotional song calls out to Facebookers seen as sinners in need of redemption

Sumana Roy spends an afternoon in the company of a smuggler

Amit Chaudhuri’s window to Calcutta shows a city where incompatible things miraculously coexist

On the spontaneous literature of outrage the Delhi rape has evoked

The farce surrounding one of India’s most important roads, National Highway 31

The nocturnal gathering of insomniacs on a social networking site

Mamata Banerjee’s career has been bound to the automobile in strange ways. No wonder, then, the reader of her memoirs soon starts to play a game of car-spotting in the narrative

On Tagore is as much about reading Rabindranath as it is about Amit Chaudhuri reading himself as a reader

An investigation of the disappearance of visiting ghosts

Durga puja pandals have clay figurines of Tagore. As do Saraswati puja ceremonies. Parents buy their kids Tagore dolls. In a state where the Left dismissed him as too elitist, Sumana Roy observes the canonisation of the poet-educationist

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…