A Kannada activist expressed disappointment on social media after a shop labeled pomegranate as 'anaar' on his receipt.

Suman Mukhopadhyay, whose film Putulnacher Itikatha (The Puppet's Tale) is in Big Screen Competition at IFFR, and whose brilliant debut 'Herbert' completes 20 years, talks about what ails & fails ...

The Yunus administration wants to implement more reforms before calling an election, but the largest political party demands ...

Sabyasachi Mukherjee's celebration of 25 years in fashion at Mumbai's Jio World Centre highlighted Kolkata as a fashion ...

The pioneer Bengal hardly even knows of today, the one who first sculpted the Bengali alphabet, has been resurrected in the ...

The award-winning Bengali author talks about his books, development of minority communities, Kolkata Book Fair, social media, ...

A Master’s student from Kolkata on the Bengali life in NYC, from Amartya Sen and Durga Puja to kathi rolls, and more ...

Freedom, Liberty and Independence. Three words that seemingly have the same meaning, but differ slightly in their interpretation. Sri Lanka gained independence from the British rulers on February 4, ...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But on a recent holiday in Vietnam we found that  you could change that to a ...

The exaggerated numbers of illegal Bangladeshi nationals bandied about by our politicians have been weaponised against Indian ...

Just as the Bengal Biennale was wrapping up this January, I went to see the art installation at the Alipore Jail museum, the ...

Writers and publishers find the police’s call for screening manuscripts for the book fair problematic. They say book fairs should be a space where ideas, even controversial ones, can be debated rather ...