Book review Book Review: Uma Das Gupta's 'A History of Sriniketan' documents Rabindranath Tagore’s abode of beauty SARBARI SINHAA new book looks at the history of Sriniketan, Rabindranath Tagore’s institute for rural reconstruction in Birbhum.
BOOKS / CONTROVERSY Fate of a book on Indian democracy SARBARI SINHA 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.
BOOK REVIEW Satyajit Ray: Master adapterSarbari SinhaA 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
INTERVIEW: Sandip Ray Film time, family time: Sandip Ray on Satyajit RaySARBARI SINHAThe film-maker Sandip Ray reminisces about his father in a free-wheeling interview.
Love of Tagore Tagore in BangladeshSarbari Sinhain KolkataThe 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
The good-boy, bad-boy talesSARBARI SINHAAn insightful study of children’s literature produced in colonial Bengal and of Bengali primers written for the early generations of schoolchildren.
Data card How the other half livesSARBARI SINHAMediocre access to health, education and job opportunities but significant political empowerment marks the pattern of women's lives in the subcontinen
Unique landlordSARBARI SINHAThe heart of the country, Tagore repeatedly said, lay in its villages and no real progress could be achieved without alleviating rural poverty.
Going underSARBARI SINHAA rising sea level and continous erosion are expected to engulf a dozen islands in the Sundarbans in the next 15 years.
An unlikely heroSARBARI SINHADespite the media build-up, The Rising, the great Aamir Khan comeback, turns out to be a damp squib.
A Bengali lost in BollywoodSARBARI SINHAOpulent settings, lots of music, a central love interest and a dramatic ending - Parineeta is a story altogether different from Sarat Chandra's novel.
Exploring Apu's worldSARBARI SINHAOn 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
Vinod Kumar Shukla: A poet in a novelist’s shirt The PEN/Nabakov award for Shukla is an acknowledgement of a unique and extraordinary talent.
SlideshowOn the marginsCyclones have irrevocably impacted the lives of people on Bangladesh’s south-west coast.
