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
The colour philosophy of Raghubir Singh was influenced by his interest in traditional Indian art
The Young Man and the City
Celebrated Bengali novelist Sankar’s Thackeray Mansion offers a mosaic of the peoples and cultures that make up Calcutta
A Modern City, Forever Old
Amit Chaudhuri’s window to Calcutta shows a city where incompatible things miraculously coexist
Oh, Calcutta
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
An archive offers images of the city in the 19th and 20th centuries on everything from matchboxes to record covers
Portrait of a City
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
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
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
City of Imagination
The author on Calcutta’s elusive connection with its literary tradition and the anarchy caused by the Hungry Generation
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