Indian film director Onir’s memoir I Am Onir and I am Gay, co-written with his sister Irene Dhar Malik is being published on June 28  by Penguin India ...

Set Up a Time for Solitude When we talk of solitude, it conjectures for many people images of going on a solo trek for a fortnight, and shutting oneself off in a cabin for a month, or moving into a m...

At college, Charu found an interesting milieu of a group of young students who believed in communism and dreamt of a peasant uprising against landlords and an egalitarian society. Defying the governme...

Finally, you buy a ticket to Kintbury, a village in Berkshire, where Vu and her friends are spending their holidays working for a farm. You get off the train at Kintbury. No one else gets off; it&rsq...

At the point of action on the street students were armed with large but light-weight flex placards printed on both sides with the standard “No Horn” symbol used by the Kolkata Police with ...

Glimpses of Bengal: Select Letters 1885-1895 by Rabindranath Tagore has been published by Niyogi Books. Read more about the book here.   ...

Antara 2  I have a picture postcard Stuck on my kitchen wall Spreading out slender wire branches Across a bright blue sky And setting four tiny wire birds upon them Mr Paul Klee has created a fu...

He was also Sonia Gandhi’s closest advisor when Sharad Pawar, P.A. Sangma and Tariq Anwar revolted against her on the ground of her foreign origins. It is believed that the drafts of all letters...

In May 2004, Basu would explain why he had called his party’s decision a historic blunder. “Yes, I still think it was a historic blunder,” he said while speaking to Shekhar Gupta, th...

Your great-grandfather was building a whole damn house when he died, baby-love!” my father liked to remind me. “Raos never rest!” Being a Rao, my father felt, was the one monumental...