In the Mood For Love
By Vishwas Kulkarni Vintage society diva Barota Malhoutra, 75, married her college sweetheart Saroj Sharma, 77, fifty years after they parted ways. A soiree earlier […]
Month: July 2016
Inside India’s oldest hotel
By Bishwanath Ghosh In 1836 — when Bahadur Shah Zafar was yet to ascend the throne in Delhi to become the last Mughal — a […]
Pope Francis to Canonize Mother Teresa
Laura Konda July 06, 2016 7:45 PM WASHINGTON— On September 4, the Vatican will hold a ceremony, officiated by Pope Francis, to canonize Mother Teresa, […]
David Bly: Bengal tiger skin not a safari trophy
David Bly / Times Colonist July 7, 2016 12:36 AM Was the now-missing tiger skin that hung on the wall of the Empress Hotel’s erstwhile […]
The Nippon-shio of Rabindranath Tagore
As Avatar Singh, the first Indian judoka to qualify for the Olympics in over a decade, prepares to go to Rio, a look at the […]
Late Nights With The Singing Fakirs Of Kolkata
“He earned blessings, not money.” It was a time when Winamp and Limewire were cool. A time without 4G, SoundCloud or YouTube. Entertainment was contingent […]
Crossing the Bay of Bengal
The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants Book By Sunil S. Amrith The Indian Ocean was global long before the Atlantic, and today […]
‘Painful Sights’: Chittaprosad on BJP Icon S.P. Mookerjee’s Bengal Village
By Chittaprosad on 04/07/2016 • The artist Chittaprosad toured Bengal during the famine years of 1943-44 and wrote a series of articles, complete with drawings, […]