If you ever find a Mahindra Thar or a Mitsubishi Outlander equipped with GPS, CB radios and Dashcams racing down some unknown path of South Bengal chasing a Norwester, do not be awestruck. It is definitely not a scene from Hollywood’s famous storm-chasing thriller Twister,
French author Jean-Baptiste Karr had opined (circa 1850) that: 'The more things change the more they remain the same'. I was in my home city Kolkata last week. That venerable, timeless and proud little poor cousin to its opulent, bustling rivals. The erstwhile jewel of the raj. The last
Calcutta captured on the streets – that too on the camera of an American military officer! Clyde Waddell was a photographer of the U.S. military who arrived in Calcutta towards the fag end of the Second World War in 1946 to assist Lord Mountbatten who
What is a nation? A satisfactory answer to this question was not present in early 19th century Calcutta. Back then, after the deadly cholera outbreak of 1817, the lottery committee was clearing forests and filling up ponds to set up new residential areas, and privately-owned