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

· Jul 17, 2021 · 12:30 pm

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

· Dec 20, 2020 · 12:30 pm

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

· Jan 07, 2018 · 12:30 pm

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

· May 16, 2015 · 09:05 am

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

· Feb 05, 2015 · 05:15 am