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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 • ( Leave a comment )

Thirst and Quenching

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

Sweet Memes are Made of These

By Guest Contributor on January 24, 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 )

Bengal CM’s critics “would have gained more voter confidence” by supporting her, says O.P. Mishra

By Dola Mitra on July 14, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

In an interview to Cuckoo News editor Dola Mitra, Professor Om Prakash Mishra, core committee member,  Trinamool Congress, addresses charges that West Bengal bungled handling of the Covid-19 crisis. He counters allegations […]

Ongoing Challenges of China-India Relations

By Guest Contributor on July 12, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

By Brigadier Vinod Dutta The foreign policy of the Chinese is like their noodles: sticky, entangled and flavorful. We in India love the noodles, but the foreign policy can get sticky and […]

Luminous in Lockdown

By Guest Contributor on July 7, 2020 • ( 9 Comments )

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going” as the saying goes. So how do the tough professionals, the men and women, accustomed to spending most of their time wheeling and […]

India’s friendly gestures to neighbors “not reciprocated,” says BJP’s Chandra Kumar Bose.

By Dola Mitra on July 6, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Chandra Kumar Bose, Bharatiya Janata Party leader from West Bengal, talks to Cuckoo News editor Dola Mitra about the ongoing India-China border conflict and other topics. He reveals why he disagreed with […]

Rain Ragas in the Vernacular

By Dola Mitra on June 29, 2020 • ( 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. “I am not the ‘miss you’, ‘miss it’ type,” says Kabir Suman, […]

Do Not Enter, Dragon!

By Guest Contributor on June 26, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

By Brigadier Vinod Dutta In the past few days, following the Indo-China face-off in the Galwan River Valley, several TV channels approached me for my views on these developments as I have […]

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 […]

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