Close to Santiniketan in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, the village of Mahishdal has rail tracks running along one of its boundaries. Nearly two decades ago, as maintenance work began on the rail bridge over the river Kopai, a little digging revealed a treasure trove of
There's a beautiful piece of cloth adorning a wall in the living room of former US President Barack Obama, one that he himself chose to buy over several other works of art. Any Bengali who sees it will recognise it instantly as an example of
An Adivasi priest sits in front of Durga and her children, intoning mantras in a language that not many among us will understand. Because the mantras are in Santhali, not Sanskrit, and this Puja isn't just another ritual, it is a revolutionary expression of a