Calcutta history: Harry Hobbs, British piano tuner, and forgotten chronicler of the city

Devasis Chattopadhyay

· Oct 08, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Remembering P Thankappan Nair (1933-2024), the historian-archivist-bibliographer of Kolkata

Sujaan Mukherjee

· Jun 23, 2024 · 07:30 am

‘Panic Sunday’: The day in 1857 when Wajid Ali Shah was arrested on charges of conspiracy

Sudipta Mitra

· May 06, 2024 · 08:30 am

How Calcutta’s first modern drains were built by The Lottery Committee in the early 1800s

Ranabir Ray Choudhury

· Aug 24, 2022 · 08:30 am

Why Kolkata is lamenting the end of a meat shop started by a Hungarian trapeze artist in the 1940s

Priyadarshini Chatterjee

· Jan 21, 2019 · 11:30 am

India’s invaluable dinosaur fossils lie neglected and forgotten in this Kolkata museum

Sebanti Sarkar

· Jan 14, 2019 · 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

A unique boat museum in Kolkata pays tribute to Bengal’s rivers and their forgotten traditions

Deepanjan Ghosh

· Apr 02, 2018 · 11:30 am

This video is a left-handed but heartfelt compliment to the slowness of Kolkata

Scroll Staff

· Dec 26, 2017 · 10:00 am

The Lost City: These monuments are a reminder that Kolkata has abandoned many of its heroes

Deepanjan Ghosh

· Jul 31, 2017 · 11:30 am