We are increasingly seeing youngsters gravitate towards English literature at the expense of their mother tongue, including Bengali. Even though English is the world’s lingua franca, it does not...

Salman Khan: The Man, The Actor, The Legend was published by Bloomsbury India in January 2022. Buy the book here. ...

As for Hindutva, it’s a word that was invented in 1894 by a Bengali gentleman called Chandranath Basu. Before the 1890s, Hindutva didn’t exist, just as Hinduism didn’t exist semantic...

Anthony Horowitz is no stranger to fans of mystery and suspense. A prolific writer for both young adult and adult readers — think The Diamond Brothers series, the Alex Rider series, the play Min...

If you were in charge of deciding how history is taught in India, would you change anything?  I’d be disastrous! I would make a very bad dictator or administrator (laughs). I am very much ...

What do you think Kolkata should hold on to, and what should change? Kolkata should hold on to its wonderful culture of inclusiveness. The culture of inclusiveness which is in our social life, in the...

NN: Primarily, we think that the digital challenge is something people can overcome, not by will power but through smart use of systems. We can also be hopeful once we realise that we need both indivi...

Actor and producer Tusshar Kapoor made news when he decided to opt for surrogacy and became a single father to his son Laksshya. The emotionally tough process has now been documented by him in the boo...

Saikat Majumdar’s new novel, The Middle Finger, is the story of a teacher’s relationship with her students in India and with her own professor in the US. Power hierarchies blur as both stu...

Mridula Ramesh ran out of water in her home in Madurai and that singular incident gave rise to a chain of actions that has now led us to a definitive book on the water crisis in India –– W...