From small difficulties arise great dreams.Anjan Nag, an ardent book lover, was initially disheartened to learn that a majority of those who had appeared for the high school leaving examination in his...

Last week, the Bombay High Court judge hearing activist Vernon Gonsalves' bail plea in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon case brought up among other things a certain book that was found in the activist's home. ...

Books have changed the lives of nearly a thousand teenagers from the South Dum Dum Municipality area.Children of household help, few of them went to school a decade ago and even those who did dropped ...

I moved to India with my husband, my six-month-old son and my pup on August 15, 2014, ironically India’s Independence Day, with the vision of regaining some of the independence that we had lost sinc...

For the last couple of months, the country has been occupied in a discussion on the draft national education policy. Academics and academic institutions are worried about the impending spectre of havi...

Rich man decides to write his will and calls everyone who stands to gain from his death, to a remote manor where an unexpected death occurs. Sounds familiar? What could be the premise of many Hercule ...

The leitmotif of nature can be strongly felt in most of Tagore’s texts. Delving deep into this very thought is author Debarati Bandyopadhyay, teacher in the department of English at Visva-Bharati, S...

This delicious French novel tells the tale of Vianne Rocher, her daughter Anouk and Anouk’s imaginary rabbit-friend Pantoufle as they open a chocolate shop in the stiff upper-lipped Christian villag...

The other day, a first-year college student complained bitterly that her generation is completely misunderstood. It is thoughtlessly stereotyped as selfie-obsessed and self-centred. She recommended th...

Entrepreneurial flair and the need to see your own burgeoning business can arrive at any point of time in life. For Riticka Srivastav, it happened while she was still in college. What started with del...