Although women constitute half of society, for countless centuries, their position has been abysmal. In the early history of India, women walked the earth as equals of men but foreign invasions, a thousand years ago, drove them into a long exile. The middle of the
Although women constitute half of society, for countless centuries, their position has been abysmal. In the early history of India, women walked the earth as equals of men but foreign invasions, a thousand years ago, drove them into a long exile. The middle of the
Although women constitute half of society, for countless centuries, their position has been abysmal. In the early history of India, women walked the earth as equals of men but foreign invasions, a thousand years ago, drove them into a long exile. The middle of the
Although women constitute half of society, for countless centuries, their position has been abysmal. In the early history of India, women walked the earth as equals of men but foreign invasions, a thousand years ago, drove them into a long exile. The middle of the
Rabindranath Tagore has his book of poems Purabi, published in the year 1925, a year after his famous meeting with Victoria Ocampo. Most of the poems of Purabi were written between 26th September 1924 and 24th January 1925 – recall that the bard arrived in
If Enid Blyton’s Famous Five was every child’s bedtime book in the 80s and early 90s, Shashtipada Chattopadhyay’s Pandab Goenda thought to be based on the Famous Five model was also every Bengali child’s favourite. It was like waiting for the next Anandamela or Shuktara
Many of our Bengali acquaintances in America have left for the other world one after another and the latest to join the journey is Sujan-Da (Sujan Dasgupta), who breathed his last on January 18 at his South Kolkata residence. I am stunned and shocked to hear
Books and Bengal are inseparable. Hence no wonder the world’s 2nd largest book fair is held every year in Kolkata with great pomp and honour where hundreds of books from across the world are sold, bought, read, turning it into an intellectual melting point. This
Arguably “the most popular, translated, and adapted Indian author of all time”. In a nutshell, that is the sentence most online biographies use to describe Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. It is easy to see why. To take just one example, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) lists over
How about breaking the shackles of patriarchy in India by bringing up our sons as caring and loving human beings? Can we save our daughters just by shouting about women's rights on social media or from podiums, without educating our sons on how to reciprocate