Book review Book Review: Uma Das Gupta's 'A History of Sriniketan' documents Rabindranath Tagore’s abode of beautyA 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 grandf
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.
Freebie phobia: The BJP’s concerted attack on redistributive transfers Although the BJP is against ‘freebies’ in principle, in practice it has been forced to use a version of concessions and transfers to counter the o
SlideshowLiving on the edgeThey are river people, whose lives ebb and flow with the waters of the Brahmaputra in a timeless rhythm. But now, hydroelectric projects and homogenis
