calcutta
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The wandering al-Khidr or English mispronunciation? Stories behind the name of a Kolkata locality
Ankush Pal
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How Gandhi brought peace and united Hindus and Muslims a year after the mass violence in Calcutta
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
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Podcast: The radical legacy of the 19th century ‘Young Bengal’ movement
Dinyar Patel
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Shifting linguistic identity: Evolution of the Assamese Department at Calcutta University
Prabir Mukhopadhyay
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Sunday book pick: The rootless marriage of an Englishman and a Bengali woman in ‘Memories of Rain’
Sayari Debnath
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Politics of hate and politics of heat: The psychology of communal violence following the Partition
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
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‘Great Eastern Hotel’: A sprawling, precise novel about Calcutta’s people and big historical moments
Sanjay Sipahimalani
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Fiction: It’s 1941, the world is at war, and Calcutta witnesses the moments before disasters strike
Ruchir Joshi
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How an Englishman captured vibrant hues of a colonial Calcutta transforming into a commercial hub
Sonal
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Portraits of India’s people by a Flemish artist who lived on the margins of 18th-century Calcutta
Giles Tillotson
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The history of Chaund Bebee from British Calcutta
Margaret Makepeace
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Identity, documents, a ‘home over there’: My father’s journey as a Partition refugee
Bidisha Biswas
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A 152-year-old bazaar in Kolkata holds the history of Bengali mishti’s evolution
Priyadarshini Chatterjee
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A new novel follows two friends as one tries to fall in love with a city and another, with her life
Buku Sarkar
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In pictures: The story of India’s classic railway buildings
Vinoo N Mathur
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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