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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 )

75 Years and Still on the Road to Freedom

By Kumar M Tiku on December 17, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

On August 15, 2022, India will mark its 75th year of freedom after overthrowing a foreign colonial power. On November 26, 2021, India marked the 72nd year since the adoption of its […]

A Bridge Over Troubled Waters

By Dola Mitra on December 17, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

On an April afternoon this year, a month before cyclone Yaas ripped through the region, a severe storm struck Sagardwip, a remote island on the Bay of Bengal and a part of […]

The Bengal Book (an excerpt)

By Dola Mitra on November 12, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

From the chapter, Casting Shadows in the Soul of “The Bengal Book”, published on October 10, 2021 by Rupa Publications. The photographs do not appear in the book but are presented (courtesy […]

“Please Do Something”

By Dola Mitra on November 8, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

This is a plea from the islanders of the Sundarban delta to the world leaders discussing climate change at the 26th Conference of Parties in Glasgow, Scotland. The day will come when […]

Yellowstone, Part 2: The World Is Art

By Koli Mitra on October 11, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

[continued from Yellowstone…] When I first landed in Cody, a small Wyoming town with a strip-mall-like airport, I had unthinkingly assumed – based on my standard East Coast experience – that our […]

Yellowstone, Part 1: Flying With Angels

By Koli Mitra on October 4, 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

When we started Cuckoo News a couple of years ago, I had hoped to do lots of travel pieces. That was before the whole pandemic/lockdown thing, of course. Although most of the […]

Moments in the Mountains

By Guest Contributor on September 26, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

An entrepreneur with a deep and lasting love for the Himalayan hills, Mark Butterworth has made Himachal Pradesh his home. Living in a secluded farm, he hikes to remote regions high in […]

River of Fire, Flame-Grilled Lamb

By Koli Mitra on September 26, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

I noticed a lunch truck today while walking along Fifth Avenue by Central Park. It read “Veteran Owned” on the side. A tiny enterprise, calling on the potential good will of fellow […]

“My Grandfather, Sarat Chandra Bose”

By Guest Contributor on September 6, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

The Grassroots is Greener on this Side

By Dola Mitra on September 3, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

During an interview in the run-up to the Assembly elections of 2011, when Mamata Banerjee defeated the three-decade old Left Front government, I had asked her if we would witness a greener […]

Kabul Diary

By Kumar M Tiku on August 31, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

As a development worker, I spent five years of my life in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2013. In more ways than one, by the time that I landed in Kabul one balmy […]

Water Water Everywhere

By Dola Mitra on August 24, 2021 • ( 3 Comments )

Sagar Deep is a remote delta island where the river Ganges flows into the Bay of Bengal. What do people here do during a health crisis? The storm struck on a moonless […]

Like a Breath of Fresh Air: How Odisha’s public and private companies decided to forgo profit to divert Liquid Medical Oxygen to the needy

By Kumar M Tiku on August 10, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

As governments around the globe scramble to enlist corporate and philanthropic support to deal with the COVID-19 emergency, the eastern State of Odisha has set the pace for corporate partnership as an […]

For Love or Lucre?

By Guest Contributor on August 9, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

What drives youth when choosing careers? Love of the profession or just lucre? Parental pressure or pure passion? Dilemmas always existed. But the Covid-19 pandemic which has wreaked havoc on lives and […]

A Year of Music in the Mother Tongue

By Dola Mitra on June 27, 2021 • ( 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. Cuckoo News is honoured and humbled to have received this gift from […]

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TODAY'S CHIRP: Some activists see all of life through the prism of their grievance, always "discovering" some hidden or even unconscious (yet culpable) malevolence behind every action or non-action. These activists don’t want solutions. They want careers in the problem.

Fiction: Haunted

Travel: Yellowstone

Music: Kabir Suman & Bangla Khayal

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