Calcutta

Unfair Play

Kishan S Rana

Where was Winston Churchill’s statesmanship when it came to India?

Viva Bata!

Sudeep Paul

The afterlife of a Czech industrial town in suburban Kolkata

Calcutta, As It Was

Swapan Dasgupta

Lord Curzon’s enduring monument to the British Raj

Red-Light Dreams

Vikram Zutshi

A police procedural and sociological treatise set in Calcutta

Calcutta on August 15, 1947

Tridip Suhrud

‘Hindus were in Muslim localities and Muslims were in Hindu areas, as if nothing had ever happened! Everyone said that all this was due to Gandhi Baba’

From Genius to Divinity

MJ Akbar

Satyajit Ray never touched alcohol, and listened to a sonata by Beethoven on his turntable gramophone at breakfast. What else could possibly be required for the biodata of a Calcutta god?