Politics & Society
The end of the hand pulled rickshaw?
G. Singh describes the plight of rickshaw pullers in Kolkata in the face of the State…
Ebola and the wilful tragedy of inaction
The WHO’s most optimistic predictions see the end of the current Ebola outbreak not before the…
Bangladesh : voices
Karthika Naïr brings to us five narrative strands which are summaries of some of the stories…
On the Jaipur Literature Festival and Other Festivals of Ideas
Monidipa Mondal and William Dalrymple explore the intellectual and emotional allure of literature festivals at and…
Road to Hussaini Dalan: A Visual Pilgrimage
Epsita Halder takes a photo walk through the Hussaini Dalan in Dhaka, and brings to us…
An Extract From Salil Tripathi’s ‘The Colonel Who Would Not Repent’
On a cold winter night, driving through a dark street without lights, we reached a house…
10 Bollywood celebrities who could do better with alternative careers
#Trigger warning: Not for the faint-hearted, not for the ones who look for beauty in every…
A Montage on Bangladesh
Paramita Banerjee highlights various parts, memories of Bangladesh in her trips to meet the women who…
Banglophilia
In the age of cultural insularity, Salil Tripathi reminisces about his love for another language, another…