Books

All cities are alike, yet the same city can mean different things to different people. Each citizen sees it in a different way; each visitor brings with him/her a fresh perspective; each time we revis...

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar’s life was about as full of contradictions and paradoxes as can be imagined, and, thus, in many ways, can be read as an allegory of the new India that he helped fashion an...

One may try to reason why Seth takes up such a challenging task and turns it into a largely uncomplicated summary account from his confession in the Epilogue. Commenting on the historian’s confidenc...

Adding to the misery of the pandemic was the recent disaster caused by cyclone Amphan in Calcutta’s boipara, the beloved lanes of College Street that is every bookworm’s heaven. The lanes and byla...

After writing 11 books of poetry, poet, translator and publisher Kiriti Sengupta decided to turn his eyes on creating a compilation of poems to combat this crucial time. That was how Hibiscus was brou...

For William Wordsworth, poetry may well have been the recollection of the poet’s feelings in a moment of tranquillity. But reality is not all rainbows and unicorns — or daffodils, for that matter ...

Megha Majumdar traces the lives of three distinct characters in a sparkling debut novel titled A Burning that is marked by an undeniable flavour of Calcutta that goes beyond placing the city in the ba...

Malavika Banerjee, Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet director, on the hows and whys of the initiative... When did you think of the boipara initiative? What is the plan?The sight of floating books made ...

Lodged as he was in the belly of the beast, Ahluwalia narrates the developments in economic policy for about 25 years from 1991, but does not turn a sufficiently critical gaze towards it. When we do s...

There are plenty of lessons waiting to be learnt during this lockdown that the world finds themselves in, in various degrees of strictness, believes Booker prize-winning author of Life of Pi, Yann Mar...