How an Englishman captured vibrant hues of a colonial Calcutta transforming into a commercial hub

Sonal

· Jun 23, 2024 · 11:30 am

Portraits of India’s people by a Flemish artist who lived on the margins of 18th-century Calcutta

Giles Tillotson

· May 05, 2024 · 11:30 am

The history of Chaund Bebee from British Calcutta

Margaret Makepeace

· May 01, 2023 · 11:30 am

Identity, documents, a ‘home over there’: My father’s journey as a Partition refugee

Bidisha Biswas

· Mar 26, 2023 · 11:30 am

A 152-year-old bazaar in Kolkata holds the history of Bengali mishti’s evolution

Priyadarshini Chatterjee

· Mar 16, 2023 · 11:30 am

A new novel follows two friends as one tries to fall in love with a city and another, with her life

Buku Sarkar

· Feb 16, 2023 · 05:30 pm

In pictures: The story of India’s classic railway buildings

Vinoo N Mathur

· Jan 12, 2023 · 08:30 am

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