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Anchita Ghatak
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How Samik Bandyopadhyay built a collection of 40,000 books that he’s donating to create a library
‘There are the books and my bed. That’s it.’
Anchita Ghatak
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This memoir reveals the struggle for rights that even affluent women in India have to go through
Renu Gourisaria, a Marwari woman from Kolkata, chronicles her long years spent trying to carve out a space for herself.
Anchita Ghatak
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This club in Kolkata celebrates books and reading (and talking about both) over breakfast by a lake
The Sarobar Book Club has just observed its first anniversary.
Anchita Ghatak
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We will leave India if told to break encryption: WhatsApp tells Delhi HC
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By mixing Carnatic and Hindustani, Mysore’s kings helped create a unique body of music
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‘Be freed from what holds you back’: Poems by Buddhist women from the Murty Classical Library
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Why is BJP wooing Bengali-origin Muslims in Assam?
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Yamini Aiyer interview: With jobless growth, welfare has become a ‘compensation’, not a public right
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Detective Mitin Mashi, not middle-class tales, might be Suchitra Bhattacharya’s lasting legacy
The Bengali writer, who passed away at the 65, is a household name for her modern stories of family fault lines, but her woman detective is truly unique.
Anchita Ghatak
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To Kill A Mockingbird gets a sequel: what will Scout do now?
In a pleasant shock to the literary establishment, Harper Lee will publish a second novel – though she wrote it first – this summer.
Anchita Ghatak