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Aspecial court in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi, 77, to three years of hard labour for committing fraud in the 2020 general elections. This brings up her prison sentence to 20 years i...

It’s been a month of debunking newly spun myths. Without wading into a debate on box-office collections or wondering if Ranbir Kapoor can collect his fee until investors like Disney-Fox-Prime Fo...

The western part of south Bengal, the region lying between the Chhotanagpur plateau on the west and the Ganges delta on the east, is known as Rarh Bengal. The word rarh originates in the ancient Austr...

According to the grim estimates of the ongoing Sixth Mass Extinction, about 500 species that roam the land are expected to go extinct soon. The figure, in my opinion, should read 501. For the Odia th...

In the 16th century, Durga was worshipped in spring. It became an autumnal festival a century later, an occasion to celebrate Rama’s victory over Ravana. Guha Thakurta calls this the “Sans...

Mangka, you are known for your folk, classical and contemporary music and performance. When did your inner voice identify that this is what you want to do? The second I could start talking, I started...

Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee's upcoming book, The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine, will take readers through a journey of discovery to the very...

In late August, Erin Alexander, 57, sat in the parking lot of a Target store in Fairfield, California, US, and wept. Her sister-in-law had recently died, and Alexander was having a hard day. A barist...

‘Tigris: The Queen of Wildlife’ by Maurizio Boscheri and Daniel Calovi was curated by Mario Liberali and organised by the consulate general of Italy in collaboration with the Kolkata Centr...

Forty years ago, in September 1982, the first "Banned Books Week" took place in the United States. According to bannedbooksweek.org, this annual awareness campaign was first launc...