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Dhaenga 25 Sep 2012 | 08:55 pm
A brief extract from Udayan Ghosh’s Khalasitolar Ami Ek Prodigal Khalasi (“I’m Khalasitola’s Prodigal Coolie”), translated by me. Normal 0 0 1 552 3150 26 6 3868 11.257 0 0 0 (Udayan Gho...
200 Killings a Month 25 Sep 2012 | 12:34 pm
A brief extract from Debashis Bhattacharya’s Shottorer Dinguli ("The Days of the Seventies") translated by me. During the months of March, April, May and June of 1971, killings were the order of the ...
Untitled 15 Sep 2012 | 12:07 pm
Prof Chandan Sengupta, sociologist, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Passed away on 9 September 2012. "I have fought a good fight; I have finished my course, I have kept the faith." He liv...
I Love IPL 14 May 2012 | 05:40 pm
SC: Are you all backing Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL? How do they play cricket in this heat? KKR is in the play-off places. BA: Kolkata Knight Riders etc - that's not really cricket, its just a pajam...
Where are the women in math and sciences? 27 Mar 2012 | 02:25 pm
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Here to stay! 10 Nov 2011 | 05:14 pm
Today's newspaper reports that the Mayor of Calcutta, Sovan Chatterjee announced yesterday that fresh licences would be issued to hand-pulled rickshaws. The Calcutta Municipal Corporation had stopped...
Some things never change ... 7 Nov 2011 | 08:15 pm
Concerned New Yorkers protest against slums at the city's May Day Parade in 1936. See more pictures from New York city in the 1940s here.
We won't give up the Fight! 10 Jul 2011 | 06:38 pm
The song says it all. Nothing more remains to be said. Thank you Meghnath Bhattacharjee. As Fr Beckers told you, we are proud and happy that you are our friend.
Man's life upon this earth 10 Jul 2011 | 03:01 pm
"For of all I have ever seen or learned, this book [Ecclesiastes] seems to me the noblest, the wisest, and the most powerful expression of man’s life upon this earth – and also the highest flower of p...
Films 26 Jun 2011 | 08:52 pm
I am not a film critic or scholar, but simply a consumer and enjoyer of cinema. And a "student", in the sense of learning from, or being formed by the film, not so much things about cinematic art, but...
