
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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’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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]