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 […]
Gift of Music and Memory
The Treasure Trunk Comes to Calcutta
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 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, […]
“My Grandfather, Sarat Chandra Bose”
On the 132nd birth anniversary of Sarat Chandra Bose, his grandson, Chandra Kumar Bose, pays a tribute The 132nd Birth Anniversary of Sarat Chandra Bose will be celebrated on 6th September 2021.This […]
Goodbye, Friend. Do you still accuse?
My friend and former colleague Jarnail Singh died of Covid this morning in a hospital in Delhi. He was younger than me. Jarnail was a journalist on the defence beat before he threw […]
Ami Subhas Bolchhi….This Is Me, Subhas
By Madhuri Bose. Editor’s note: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the visionary who was among the foremost pioneers of India’s freedom struggle, may have written hundreds of letters during his lifetime, both personal […]
Subhas was here: a big lake and a little library still echo with Netaji’s footfalls
By Rajesh Sinha. Disagreements with his Congress colleagues about the mode of struggle that should be adopted in order to drive out the British from India led Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose to […]
The Mind behind the Mask
The glassy waters of a gurgling brook reflect the changing colours of the day like a mirror. Gray-blue in the cool morning air. Red-orange in the heat of midday. A burst of […]
A Trunk Full of Treasures: Letters from a Legacy
On November 7, contents of a trunk containing rare treasures will spill out into the public domain. Private letters from nearly a century ago exchanged between Netaji Subhas Bose, his elder brother […]
Voting & Identity 2016-2020
When I voted earlier today, I had an eerie feeling. There were maybe five other people in my polling place, which is odd, given the high-voter turnout predicted this year, despite the […]
Voting Women, 100
A hundred years ago today, American women finally got a Constitutionally guaranteed right to vote, when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified. I confess, when 2020 began, I assumed this centenary was going […]
Brave New City
Like most people, New Yorkers don’t go out very much anymore. We do it more than we did back in April or May, but still… it’s not the same city. You know, […]
Khudiram’s Last Smile
On August 15, India’s Independence Day, I am thinking about how long and laborious a march it had been to get to that day in 1947. A march on a path beaten […]
George Orwell, Neglected Son of India
The literary world has failed miserably, once again, to commemorate one of the greatest writers of world literature on his birthday, observes Rajesh Sinha. The visionary author, Eric Arthur Blair, better known […]
Understand, Don’t Stoke, The Rage
The world is in turmoil right now. In poltics, the media, even civil society, there are calls for people to “take sides” and “take action.” But what action? And which “side”? I […]
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