13th January 2008, Kalyani For certain places, there will always remain a special regard. These are not once-in-a-lifetime bucket list desti...

City of Djinns - William Dalrymple I treasure an old copy of William Dalrymple's "City of Djinns" that I have in my possession...

The premise was interesting, very interesting. A bank-heist caper set in the small towns and urban villages of Bengal in the mould of a geni...

  PC: Dall-E, Open AI Maybe because it was December, her favourite month - with its cool weather, her birthday and Christmas in sequence. Ma...

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" Luna mein hain no tension -trumpety music- Chalane mein hain no tension -trumpety music- Maintenance mein no more tension ...

No, it’s not even on Ripon Street. Ripon Street actually ends at Lower Circular Road but in the long standing tradition of locating the...

The inquisition is an everyday reality. “Don’t you have any *real* friends?” “Staring at a computer screen for hours together?...

Now this is home territory. Central Calcutta with its incessant honking and claustrophobic lanes may not be to everyone's taste but I ...