Film-maker Sandip Ray, along with Kalyani University vice-chancellor Manas Kumar Sanyal, launches a book — Aparajito Satyajit — to mark the birth centenary of his father Satyajit Ray in Ca...

Tell us about your involvement with cinematic adaptations of your books? I’ve been very fortunate so far to be involved with All the Bright Places –– I wrote the script, was involve...

Storyteller, the Calcutta-based independent book store, recently organised a Saturday evening filled with stories about “princesses, monsters and magical creatures” to celebrate World Kid ...

If you have a sweet tooth, nothing beats Kolkata. Everyone has that one mishtir dokaan from where they have to have their regular supply of mishti. For me it is rabri from Haragouri. And of course, th...

Muscular India: Masculinity, Mobility & the New Middle Class by Michiel Baas (Context, Westland) The Death Script: Dreams and Delusions in Naxal Country by Ashutosh Bhardwaj (Fourth Estate, Har...

A city school has developed an e-library for the students of junior school at a time when access to the school library is not possible. Teachers at Mahadevi Birla World Academy have curated the libra...

Prabha Khaitan Foundation in association with Muskaan and Kitaab hosted an interactive session with Sudha Murty curated specially for children. An engineer-turned-writer, she has written over 39 books...

Spooky Stories (HarperCollins Children’s Books; Rs 199) Tanushree Podder has provided a haunting setting to base multiple ghost stories and thread them into a single book for kids that will def...

Dutee Chand is an inspiration to many for multiple reasons but if one was to try and understand her, it would be her resilience that shines through. The Odisha woman who went on to shine light on Indi...

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