Culture

Losing My Religion by R.E.M. Misheard: Let’s pee in the corner. Let’s pee in the spotlight. Correct: That’s me in the corner. That’s me in the spotlight. This is good fun an...

Last week, John Lennon’s Instagram account — managed by his estate — made three consecutive posts about a person many may not have heard of — Lizzie Bravo. She was a superfan. ...

Saswata Chatterjee tried his hand at the dhaak. Pictures: B. Halder ...

Steve Aoki: They’re just amazing, beautiful human beings. ...

Kamaladi, our domestic help, had missed that intricate web, I thought to myself. Those were the early days of the pandemic and the lockdown, and beginning of the no-Kamaladi period. What Kamaladi had ...

A fistful of moong dal and another of rice, the short-grained fragrant gobindobhog, cooked together and served with desi ghee. In Bengal, this dish is known as khichuri and it is the favoured offering...

Dwaipayan and Kasturi are among the founder-members of the People’s Film Collective, a platform that screens documentary films and political cinema for audiences in Bengal. Kasturi has co-direct...

These are unlucky days. A cloudy sky over Calcutta feels ominous, especially after the relentless downpour a fortnight ago. Dipankar Dey, however, objects to “unlucky” and “ominous&r...

I wanted my children to grow up with dogs just as we had, so, when my son was four, we got a puppy, Mowgli. My children’s interaction with dogs would have been just like mine — bringing up...

"The body is perishable but if my soul is present at the ashram then it will always be alive. If the atmosphere at the ashram, for which we all are trying, also becomes the atmosphere of our own ...