“This is why most books, especially literature, can’t make a truth claim,” she said. “Our imagination is neither rational nor irrational, and yet the way it perceives books can...

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, eminent literary critic, contributor to the Subaltern Studies Collective and University Professor, Columbia University, and Alapan Bandyopadhyay, administrator and writer, ...

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Sujata Sen, director, Kolkata Literature Festival, observed: “The forced isolation and uncertainty of the pandemic made many of us turn to books and the arts for solace. It gives me immense happ...

She recounted that in 1942 her father, a doctor, was able to cure the queen of Nepal and so the Maharana of Nepal gave him a bag full of gold coins in gratitude. This enabled him to build a house in B...

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In the late 1970s I used to work with Pam Crain, the jazz singer. I was doing the lighting… She never let anyone light her other than me. ‘He somehow manages to make me look younger,&rsqu...

Coffee is the last thing that comes to mind when one thinks of the Indian Coffee House on College Street. For its patrons, the establishment is synonymous with stimulating intellectual conversations, ...

Krishna Bose’s website, krishnabose.com, was relaunched, too. The even concluded with Krishna Bose’s recorded recitation of the poem “Proshno (Query)” by Rabindranath Tagore. ...