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Sweet Memes are Made of These

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

The Treasure Trunk Comes to Calcutta

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

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

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

A Bridge Over Troubled Waters

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

Yellowstone, Part II: The World Is Art

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

Yellowstone, Part I: Flying With Angels

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

George Orwell, Neglected Son of India

By Guest Contributor on June 25, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

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 […]

Apu, the Road, and Sixty Years

By Dola Mitra on June 21, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Apu’s story, in Bibhuti Bhusan Bandyopadhyay’s epic novel, did not end where Ray’s trilogy, based on the book, did. He lived on. And now he returns. In this series of articles, Cuckoo […]

Shadow Mistress, Chhayanat

By Dola Mitra on June 17, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

In this series of articles, Cuckoo News documents the revival* of a music genre, Bangla Khayal, by a musical genius, Kabir Suman. It’s 8:30 in the morning on a dazzling day in […]

Luminous in Lockdown

By Guest Contributor on June 17, 2020 • ( 6 Comments )

Lockdowns have closed everything from beauty parlours to book shops. But like a breath of fresh air in these choking times these lovely ladies (and a few gorgeous gentlemen) have turned to […]

Understand, Don’t Stoke, The Rage

By Koli Mitra on June 14, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

Trapped in Daughterhood:

By Sehba Imam on June 14, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Mother-daughter relationships can be intense. One of the deepest attachments of love — but often also other, more complicated emotions. Many mothers and their adult daughters have had to confront that head […]

The Police Do What They Do Because

By Dola Mitra on June 13, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

“Please don’t cry, Ma’am,” said the white policeman to my mother, a brown woman. “These things happen all the time.” The year was 1980.  The place was Alexandria, a suburban town in […]

Luminous in Lockdown

By Guest Contributor on May 16, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Lockdowns have closed everything from beauty parlours to book shops. But like a breath of fresh air in these choking times these lovely ladies (and a few gorgeous gentlemen) have turned to […]

The Jokers Go Home…The Audience Longs To Also

By Sujan Dutta on May 15, 2020 • ( 5 Comments )

In a Last Act, the pretty Sheetal blew a flying kiss inside a stadium. The stadium in the Yamuna Sports Complex in East Delhi has been converted into a shelter for migrant […]

So when the same editor sheds tears for the injustice meted out to the migrant labourers, one’s thoughts drift from ants to crocodiles.

By Dola Mitra on May 15, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

Our middleclass hearts are bleeding. Most of us are outdoing each other in trying to express our shock at what is happening to the poor people of our country. We have all […]

Petals and Potshots in the “Pandemic Peace”

By Sujan Dutta on May 10, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

Anuj Sood was a bright student. He was brought home wrapped in the Indian national flag, a fallen soldier. He was cremated on Tuesday. His soldier-father, a retired Brigadier General of the […]

Covid-19: Yet Another Cue to Reassess How We Relate to Nature?

By Dola Mitra on May 2, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

“Don’t worry, Auntie” the young man said, chuckling. He was standing in the kitchen clearing soot from pipes in the chimney, as part of the annual maintenance service provided by the home […]

Interview: Prof Om Prakash Mishra

By Dola Mitra on October 7, 2019 • ( 3 Comments )

“The only genuine face of democratic secularism in the state of West Bengal currently is that of Mamata Banerjee,” says Prof. Om Prakash Mishra In the past four decades, after it was […]

“Despite Persecution And Exile” Displaced Kashmiri Pandit Is “Unable To Gloat” Over Recent Events

By Kumar M Tiku on September 17, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

There are many divergent views in the current debate about Kashmir and the end of its Special Status under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution. Cuckoo News does not endorse any particular […]

“The nation should stand by the government on Kashmir…” Says Chandra Kumar Bose

By Dola Mitra on September 17, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

After the Parliamentary Elections this year, we profiled Chandra Kumar Bose, the BJP candidate who challenged the results of his South Calcutta constituency. We now follow up with him on the status […]

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