Calcutta
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Wendy Doniger on her memories of Calcutta and Santiniketan as a student of Sanskrit and Bengali
Wendy Doniger
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How a steamer service from Calcutta transformed Rangoon from an overgrown village to a boomtown
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Poet Hoshang Merchant reads and annotates academic Brinda Bose’s collection of Calcutta poems
Hoshang Merchant
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Art and drama on a 19th-century Bengal scandal reveal the gender and sexual politics of the time
Olivia Majumdar
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‘I was unconsciously recording the seething intolerance and incipient rise of saffron in Bengal’
Shireen Quadri
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Calcutta’s ladies of the night: A forgotten Bengali classic offers a glimpse of a racy lifestyle
Hemendra Kumar Roy
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Who was Mrs Sen? The search for the first woman to fly in India
Aarefa Johari
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Sex worker, con-woman, serial murderess: The story of Troilokya, who terrorised Calcutta in 1800s
Deepanjan Ghosh
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Forgotten history: How the last Nawab of Oudh built a mini Lucknow in Calcutta
Deepanjan Ghosh
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Calcutta’s dark past: The city was a thriving market for slaves in mid-18th century
Tathagata Neogi
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Video: How New Delhi officially took over from Calcutta as India’s capital city
Ramakrishnan M
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Photos: The delight and wariness at India’s first floating market in Kolkata
Bitan Basu
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Video: How India’s centuries-old tram system ended up surviving only in Kolkata
Ramakrishnan M
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City secrets: Art Deco architecture spread across Kolkata, thanks to a state law – and jugaad
Deepanjan Ghosh
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This short story answers the question: ‘What will you do if you know when you will die?’
Amit Dasgupta
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Watch: How Calcutta’s infamous traffic posed a major hurdle to US military forces back in 1945
Scroll Staff
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‘The Statesman’ and Chota Bristol: Two Calcutta icons that may collapse but will not die
Kushanava Choudhury
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How the first English clock with Bengali numerals and Swiss machinery came to Calcutta
Sarbajaya Bhattacharya
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Is this, at last, the great Marwari novel of modern India?
Sujit Saraf
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An obscure text sheds light on the idea of the 'public' in 19th-century Calcutta
The Public Domain Review