This write-up describes my singular experience in translating Bengali short stories into English. However, all literary translations deal with certain common problems—of idiolect and dialect, or the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. By now, it’s an old joke: Molière’s Bourgeois Gentilhomme discovers that he has been speaking something called ...

Bengali literature has had a rich history of prose, beginning more or less in the early 19th century under the colonial Raj. Calcutta's presence as the British Empire's capital in the colony shaped ...

One winter evening in Calcutta, when I was ten, we ran out of food in our third floor flat. It was a freak concatenation of circumstances, not poverty, that led to our predicament, but the fact ...

Durga Puja isn’t just about pandal hopping and feasting in Kolkata — it is also about family time, childhood memories and nostalgia that refuses to die. It is this emotion that many filmmakers have ...

The Awakening explores the attributes of the other side of the coin where the evil has been deducted out of its morale and bears the torchlight for the negligence and tortures on Surpanakha. The epic ...

Elixir has been directed by Anirban Guha. I am humbled that the film got selected by the Cannes jury: Anirban Other films like Afternoon with Julia have also been selected. Kolkata: Director Anirban ...

Rabindranath Tagore’s timeless classic ‘Kabuliwala’, telling the story of the fatherly love a middle-aged Afghan man has for a little Kolkata girl, will be made into a film again in Bengali after over ...

Independence Day is celebrated every year on August 15, marking India’s freedom from colonial rule. The Prime Minister hoists the national flag at the Red Fort in Delhi, and the entire country joins ...