Today's episode of our 'Crime Time' series highlights yet another recent case, where the arrest was made in 2019, and the lower court's sentence of death passed this year. It is remarkable as one of the rare instances of serial killing in the country, and
A watering car, over 100 years old, in good running condition In the early 1990s, the then Left Front government began dismantling Kolkata's century-old tramways, introducing state buses in their place. Today, Kolkata is still the only Indian city operating a tramway, which is, in fact,
Today, we shed light on the 'cigarette butt murder', a fairly recent crime which occurred in Kolkata, so there's no great history behind it, but the case is remarkable owing to the manner in which it was solved, following one of the most popular clues
The dragon fruit, also known as 'pitaya', and sometimes as strawberry pear, is a tropical fruit with a distinctive bright red skin and sweet, seed-filled pulp. A native of Central America, it is particularly common in Mexico. Well, there's now a little bit of Mexico
The first time I met Sharbari Dutta, she was busy organising an exhibition of her clothes, and didn't have much time for a rookie reporter with little or no idea of the Indian fashion scene. But matters subsequently improved to the point where she called
The late author Leela Majumdar once said Dhiren Bal reminded her of her brother Sukumar Ray A cat called Bhutu, his parents, and his friends live in a picture-perfect village somewhere in Bengal. All of them have neat little houses in their neat little village, all
Bikrampuri Korma Kolkata residents Subhajit Bhattacharyya and Amit Ghosh Dastidar have been friends and business partners for nearly two decades. For most of those who know them professionally, they run an events management and coordination company. So what are they doing in a story about lost
From teaching Political Science at Kolkata’s Vidyasagar College in the 1960s to entering Rashtrapati Bhavan as India’s 13th President in 2012, Bharat Ratna Pranab Mukherjee some-how made the extraordinary journey look easy. In between, he took in such crucial Central portfolios as Finance (when he
“Welcome the Berliner Philharmoniker into your home – on your TV, computer, tablet or smartphone. Live or on-demand from our archive,” reads the exhortation from the venerable Berlin Philharmonic Opera, a 138-year-old institution now adapting to the winds of change, a change forced upon performing
A poor Brahmin driven out of his own home by a ghost who impersonates him. Four friends who learn the art of transforming bones into living, breathing beings. A clever barber who ‘bags' a ghost and makes it do his bidding. All this and much