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Goja Moja

By Sujan Dutta on May 22, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Memories of Fading Days and the Road Ahead

By Dola Mitra on April 19, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Mayo Just Doesn’t Cut the Mustard

By Sujan Dutta on April 14, 2023 • ( 2 Comments )

A Room… and a Window of Our Own

By Dola Mitra on August 8, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

Gift of Music and Memory

By Koli Mitra on August 7, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

Yellowstone, Part 3: Forests, Lakes, ATM Machines

By Koli Mitra on July 3, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

Goja Moja

By Sujan Dutta on May 22, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

A magical sweet is the Goja It has a peculiar moja Often it’s crumbed, Its layers gummed, It may be tyaara, byaka or shoja. Last week in Birbhum’s Siuri, To which I […]

Memories of Fading Days and the Road Ahead

By Dola Mitra on April 19, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

In this series of articles, Cuckoo News documents the revival of a music genre, Bangla Khayal, by a musical genius, Kabir Suman. At dusk, on April 18, Kabir Suman writes: “The day draws to a close…..perhaps […]

Mayo Just Doesn’t Cut the Mustard

By Sujan Dutta on April 14, 2023 • ( 2 Comments )

[Editor’s Note: Poila Boishakh, the Bengali new year, is upon us. Like every new year, it’s really as much about looking back with nostalgia at the old year(s) as it is about […]

Today’s Children and Indian Culture

By Guest Contributor on December 2, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

By Somnath Pal Manasija organized an Odissi dance program called ‘Anandam’ held at Triveni Kala Sangam. The program featured a solo Odissi dance performance by child artist Srishti Debroy.  Srishti Debroy has […]

A Room… and a Window of Our Own

By Dola Mitra on August 8, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

When Cuckoo News editor Dola Mitra dropped in at the Artsy – Coffee and Culture (“led there by the aroma of coffee and cake” in her own words) she decided to write […]

Gift of Music and Memory

By Koli Mitra on August 7, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

Cuckoo News readers know all about our recurring feature of the maestro Kabir Suman’s on-going work in Bangla Khayal revival. You might also know from the series of related articles written about […]

Yellowstone, Part 3: Forests, Lakes, ATM Machines

By Koli Mitra on July 3, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

[continued from Yellowstone…] We reached Yellowstone National Park through the East Entrance and got our park passes and a map. Our hotel would be another hour’s drive through the Absaroka mountain range […]

Thirst and Quenching

By Dola Mitra on June 27, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

In this series of articles, Cuckoo News documents the revival of a music genre, Bangla Khayal, by a musical genius, Kabir Suman. Lyrics by Kabir Suman (in the original Bengali): “Mati pran paye borshay/ Mati […]

Declassified….Demystified

By Dola Mitra on June 18, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

In a riveting discussion entitled “The Mortal End of an Immortal Hero”, which begins in just under a couple of hours, Sumeru Roy Chaudhury, author of “Netaji as Gumnami: India’s Biggest Hoax” […]

“Riveting Read”

By Dola Mitra on April 10, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

A review of Arindam Basu’s collection of short stories, “Every Thing You Never Expected”. A journalist is sent to investigate a haunted mansion in a remote district. Is it really inhabited by […]

Sweet Memes are Made of These

By Guest Contributor on January 24, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

S.B. Easwaran reflects on the decline and fall of the delectable soanpapdi and decrees that it is in a sad spot of sweet trouble. The plight of the soanpapdi demonstrates the power of over-gifting to […]

The Treasure Trunk Comes to Calcutta

By Dola Mitra on January 22, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

On November 7, 2020 contents of a trunk containing rare treasures had spilt out into the public domain. Private letters from nearly a century ago exchanged between Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, his […]

My Granduncle Subhas Chandra Bose

By Guest Contributor on January 22, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

by Chandra Kumar Bose On Netaji’s 125th birth anniversary a grandnephew ferrets out little known personal details about India’s greatest freedom fighter from the family lore. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: the man, […]

How a Blink and Miss Village Became an Example of Covid-19 Resistance

By Kumar M Tiku on December 28, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Rajannapet village is India’s first 100 percent COVID 19-resilient village. This sleepy, blink-and-miss village is as devoid of basic health care as any you would find in India. Yet, the whistle-stop hamlet, […]

The Living Legend Live

By Dola Mitra on December 20, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

In this series of articles, Cuckoo News documents the revival of a musical genre, Bangla Khayal, by a musical genius, Kabir Suman. “Electric,” is how a fan of Kabir Suman describes the live performances of […]

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