Calcutta

India Enchanted

Shreya Ray

Lord Hastings’ 1814 journey from Calcutta to Punjab with painter Sita Ram is a discovery of Colonial India through lives mundane and magical

Master Picture Perfect

Rosalyn D’Mello

The colour philosophy of Raghubir Singh was influenced by his interest in traditional Indian art

The Young Man and the City

Sohini Chattopadhyay

Celebrated Bengali novelist Sankar’s Thackeray Mansion offers a mosaic of the peoples and cultures that make up Calcutta

A Modern City, Forever Old

Sumana Roy

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

Oh, Calcutta

Trisha Gupta

The Kalighat paintings were remarkable critiques of city life in early 19th century Calcutta, even when the subjects were ostensibly religious ones

Calcutta Once and Forever

Prerna Raturi

An archive offers images of the city in the 19th and 20th centuries on everything from matchboxes to record covers

Portrait of a City

Sohini Chattopadhyay

Restless, fevered even, and awash with the portend of impending doom, Theroux’s latest is difficult to put down or forget.

The Thorough Mr Theroux

Sohini Chattopadhyay

Paul Theroux on his latest novel set in Calcutta, on how Naipaul ‘oversimplified the city in one of his belittling books’, on why you can never trust writers...

On Which the Sun Won’t Set

Jaideep Mazumdar

Calcutta Clubs are quite simply in a class of their own. There’s a good reason for that. And also for why their charmed existence is destined to last forever