A pro-Hindu group stormed an event in Assam’s Silchar town where Calcutta-based poet Srijato Bandyopadhyay was chief guest on Saturday evening and later threw stones from the outside, causing police...

Kunal Sen bid his final farewell to an old “friend” on Tuesday.“I called him Bondhu (Friend) but he was so much more,” said filmmaker Mrinal Sen’s son as the cortege made its way through Ras...

I first met Mrinal Sen at 21, working as a journalist and directing a Jean-Paul Sartre play in Bengali. I had gone over to the director of Alliance Francaise for funding. Mrinal Sen had come to discus...

Partially hidden behind one of the exits of central Calcutta’s Chandni Chowk Metro station is a biggish wooden door with red signage that says — Chung Wah. Push the door open and you will find you...

The Asam Sahitya Sabha and the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) on Friday jointly urged the people, especially Muslims living in sar areas, to mention Assamese as their mother tongue in the 2...

Chief Minster Mamata Banerjee said on Friday that those living in Bengal must learn to speak Bengali, intensifying her movement against the BJP which she accuses of trying to defame Bengal and its cul...

How many people do you know who are up in the Alps during this lockdown? A fair-skinned, light-eyed former beauty queen-turned-Hindi film actor called me from Austria the other day. She’s recouping ...

 Five young Avengers fans are drawing up a list of all the Bengali classics they must watch. Students of more than 20 English-medium schools in the city were shown Bengali films in class as part ...

Sir — It has become commonplace for the Bengali bhadralok to express a virulent distaste for anything vegetarian. Yet Bengal has a rich tradition of serving a variety of such dishes; items like fish...

A French friend of mine has just sold her apartment in one of the most central and ‘happening’ areas of Paris and moved to the smaller city of Lyon in the centre of France. Within an hour’s driv...