Wendy Doniger on her memories of Calcutta and Santiniketan as a student of Sanskrit and Bengali

Wendy Doniger

· Jun 02, 2022 · 08:30 am

How a steamer service from Calcutta transformed Rangoon from an overgrown village to a boomtown

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Mar 30, 2022 · 11:30 am

Poet Hoshang Merchant reads and annotates academic Brinda Bose’s collection of Calcutta poems

Hoshang Merchant

· Sep 18, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Art and drama on a 19th-century Bengal scandal reveal the gender and sexual politics of the time

Olivia Majumdar

· Jun 16, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘I was unconsciously recording the seething intolerance and incipient rise of saffron in Bengal’

Shireen Quadri

· Apr 26, 2020 · 08:30 am

Calcutta’s ladies of the night: A forgotten Bengali classic offers a glimpse of a racy lifestyle

Hemendra Kumar Roy

· Jan 07, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Who was Mrs Sen? The search for the first woman to fly in India

Aarefa Johari

· Dec 19, 2018 · 11:30 am

Sex worker, con-woman, serial murderess: The story of Troilokya, who terrorised Calcutta in 1800s

Deepanjan Ghosh

· Nov 26, 2018 · 11:30 am

Forgotten history: How the last Nawab of Oudh built a mini Lucknow in Calcutta

Deepanjan Ghosh

· Jul 26, 2018 · 11:30 am

Calcutta’s dark past: The city was a thriving market for slaves in mid-18th century

Tathagata Neogi

· Jul 16, 2018 · 03:30 pm

Video: How New Delhi officially took over from Calcutta as India’s capital city

Ramakrishnan M

· Feb 14, 2018 · 11:30 am

Photos: The delight and wariness at India’s first floating market in Kolkata

Bitan Basu

· Feb 07, 2018 · 03:30 pm

Video: How India’s centuries-old tram system ended up surviving only in Kolkata

Ramakrishnan M

· Jan 19, 2018 · 06:22 pm

City secrets: Art Deco architecture spread across Kolkata, thanks to a state law – and jugaad

Deepanjan Ghosh

· Dec 12, 2017 · 11:30 am

This short story answers the question: ‘What will you do if you know when you will die?’

Amit Dasgupta

· Oct 13, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Watch: How Calcutta’s infamous traffic posed a major hurdle to US military forces back in 1945

Scroll Staff

· Sep 18, 2017 · 05:00 pm

‘The Statesman’ and Chota Bristol: Two Calcutta icons that may collapse but will not die

Kushanava Choudhury

· Aug 07, 2017 · 08:30 am

How the first English clock with Bengali numerals and Swiss machinery came to Calcutta

Sarbajaya Bhattacharya

· Apr 07, 2017 · 11:30 am

Is this, at last, the great Marwari novel of modern India?

Sujit Saraf

· Mar 29, 2017 · 08:30 am

An obscure text sheds light on the idea of the 'public' in 19th-century Calcutta

The Public Domain Review

· Nov 02, 2016 · 09:30 pm