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Parimal Bhattacharya
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There’s a Bengal beyond the urban middle class of Kolkata. A new book explores its corners
An excerpt from ‘Field Notes from a Waterborne Land: Bengal Beyond the Bhadralok’, by Parimal Bhattacharya.
Parimal Bhattacharya
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Before the pandemic and (maybe) after: A catalogue of what cities lose
You can never go back to the city the way it was, because it has been changed, perhaps irrevocably by Covid-19.
Parimal Bhattacharya
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The fate of a Lepcha spy who was sent to Tibet to survey the Yarlung Tsangpo (or the Brahmaputra)
Parimal Bhattacharya’s book, ‘Bells of Shangri-La’ recounts the adventures of scholars and spies in Tibet, including the famous Pandit Kinthup.
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Meet Sarat Chandra Das: The spy who came in from the cold of Tibet and wrote a book about it
How did a middle-class Bengali become a British agent in the forbidden kingdom?
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‘No Path in Darjeeling Is Straight’: Why Gorkhas want their own state
A new book explores the real reasons for alienation among the people of Darjeeling.
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