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Parimal Bhattacharya

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
· Dec 22, 2021 · 09:55 am
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
· Jul 25, 2021 · 05:30 pm
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.

Parimal Bhattacharya
· Mar 20, 2019 · 06:30 pm