Putul Das, 35, is seen every day at a prominent spot in Hindustan Park in south Kolkata’s Gariahat area selling flowers. On Sunday, Mother’s Day, she had to make a second trip to Mull...

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...

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Books and books everywhere Certainly, Nandana’s mother’s family home was the ultimate literary household with books strewn everywhere. Says Nandana: “We’re totally coloni...

There was a time I loved you so, black cloud, that’s hard now to forget.  And yet, I can let no one know, for, cloud, Now you have turned blood-red. ...

When does an ethical anachronism churn guilt? When you enjoy an artwork with values that clash with those in which your body lives? But you’re also a creature of the present. You cannot but feel...

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“I didn’t choose poems based on how difficult or easy it would be to translate. It was what resonated with me the most, were most representative of her and had variations within them,&rdqu...

Nandana Dev Sen, daughter of the late author Nabaneeta Dev Sen and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, has translated her mother’s poem in reaction to the alleged gang rape and murder of a Dalit teenage...

Eminent litterateur Nabaneeta Dev Sen died in her South Calcutta home late on Thursday after a protracted illness. She was 81 years and is survived by two daughters — writer Antara and actor Nandana...