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Book Review: Uma Das Gupta's 'A History of Sriniketan' documents Rabindranath Tagore’s abode of beauty

A new book looks at the history of Sriniketan, Rabindranath Tagore’s institute for rural reconstruction in Birbhum.

A polling booth during a panchayat election held on November 15 in Bodhgaya, Bihar. Roy Chowdhury and Keane argue in their book that democracy is “more than pressing a button or marking a box on a ballot paper. It goes beyond the mathematical certitude of election results and majority rule.”

Fate of a book on Indian democracy

The peculiar case of a book on Indian democracy that almost got pushed out of the Indian market but has managed to make a comeback.

Satyajit Ray: Master adapter

A delightful collection of Satyajit Ray’s translation of poems and stories of his father, Sukumar Ray, the folk tales put into writing by his grandfat

Film time, family time: Sandip Ray on Satyajit Ray

The film-maker Sandip Ray reminisces about his father in a free-wheeling interview.

The Tagore residence, or Kuthibari, at Shilaidaha, built in 1892. The house is a protected building now in Bangladesh.

Tagore in Bangladesh

The love of Tagore remains one of the chief cultural unifiers between the two Bengals; so does the love of the Bengali language, as Tagore predicted i

Sarbari Sinha,in Kolkata

Chennai: 31/10/2015: The Hindu: Front Line: Book Review Column: Title: The Gopal Rakhal Dialectic. Colonialsim and Children's Literature Bengal. Author: Sibaji Bandyopadhyay. Translated by Rani Ray & Nivedita Sen.

The good-boy, bad-boy tales

An insightful study of children’s literature produced in colonial Bengal and of Bengali primers written for the early generations of schoolchildren.

CHENNAI, 24/02/2010: Working women at a garment factory at Ambattur Estate, in Chennai.
Photo: K. Pichumani

How the other half lives

Mediocre access to health, education and job opportunities but significant political empowerment marks the pattern of women's lives in the subcontinen

Unique landlord

The heart of the country, Tagore repeatedly said, lay in its villages and no real progress could be achieved without alleviating rural poverty.

Going under

A rising sea level and continous erosion are expected to engulf a dozen islands in the Sundarbans in the next 15 years.

Aamir Khan as Mangal Pandey.-BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

An unlikely hero

Despite the media build-up, The Rising, the great Aamir Khan comeback, turns out to be a damp squib.

Saif Ali as Shekhar and Vidya Balan as Lalita in Parineeta.-

A Bengali lost in Bollywood

Opulent settings, lots of music, a central love interest and a dramatic ending - Parineeta is a story altogether different from Sarat Chandra's novel.

Satyajit Ray chose Pather Panchali for the qualities that made it a great book.-THE HINDU PHOTO LIBRARY

Exploring Apu's world

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Satyajit Ray's celluloid classic Pather Panchali, a look at The Apu Trilogy, based on Bibhuti Bhushan Bando

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