Bengali literature has had a rich history of prose, beginning more or less in the early 19th century under the colonial Raj. Calcutta's presence as the British Empire's capital in the colony shaped ...

Durga Puja isn’t just about pandal hopping and feasting in Kolkata — it is also about family time, childhood memories and nostalgia that refuses to die. It is this emotion that many filmmakers have ...

The boatmen put up the sails of seven boats from the mahajan’s godown of garan wood at Shyamganj as soon as the tide ebbed in the river Hooghly. The mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters of thirty ...

Many Gen Z Bengalis in Kolkata are only capable of reading their favourite Feluda stories by Satyajit Ray in English translation. For the benefit of this ever-expanding class and others as well, it ...

This year, Indian films like Anurag Kashyap's Raman Raghav 2.0 starring Nawazuddin and Vicky Kaushal, and Kabir Bedi-narrated documentary Mount of Excellence will be screened. Six Bengali short films ...