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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 )

Voters Want to Know: Who Will Lead?

By Dola Mitra on September 16, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

In West Bengal, ruling Trinamool has one undisputed leader – the political party’s fiery founder and the state’s current chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, popularly known as Didi (“Big Sister”). In 2011, when […]

Song of Morrison

By Koli Mitra on August 12, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Beloved author, and author of “Beloved”; American icon, Nobel-laureate (and one of our favorite novelists), Toni Morrison, passed away on Monday, August 5, 2019, at age 88. I lost a hero. A […]

Government of India revokes “special status” of Kashmir

By Dola Mitra on August 6, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

In a historic move, the Indian government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has revoked Article 370 of the Constitution which accorded special status to Kashmir. After receiving the endorsement […]

Pictures Speak With A Thousand Voices: Cindy Trinh’s Social and Personal Art

By Koli Mitra on August 5, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

The photography of Cynthia “Cindy” Trinh defies rigid classification. It is art, yes, but also journalism, activism, community engagement, self-expression, and sometimes, a celebration. She is passionate about social justice and has […]

When in Rome…

By Dola Mitra on August 3, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Cuckoo News tells brief tales of a few travelers, in their own words. “When in Rome, I spent only about two days exploring all the wonderful medieval and Renaissance stuff and allocated […]

Bay of Bengal: View from Rakhine, Myanmar

By Dola Mitra on August 1, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Dark clouds gathered in the horizon and over the vast stretch of sea along Myanmar’s western coast of Arakan or “Rakhine” as the locals call it. A storm brewed. High winds swept […]

Haunted, Part 1

By Guest Contributor on August 1, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

by Lekha Dey. I live alone. In the two-story house under the moonlight. Silver beams, like liquid dreams, flood the balcony, bathe the window sills and wash the bed spreads. They remain […]

Unlikely Escape

By Koli Mitra on July 30, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

The word “escape” makes me think of an exit. Usually an exit from a small enclosure onto a wide open environment. But I wonder if the more common practice isn’t to enter […]

Army Bowled Over By Batsman

By Sujan Dutta on July 30, 2019

New Delhi: Lieutenant Colonel Mahendra Singh Dhoni is headed to Kashmir. He will be on patrolling duty, the army has confirmed. Dhoni, an Indian cricketing icon, is an honorary officer with the […]

Beauty Bytes

By Guest Contributor on July 29, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

You have beauty questions? Beauty Bytes calls on the beauty practitioners to answer them! This week, Sukanya Das Lalwani answers the question: “What can I do to look fresh in the summer, […]

A Great Man And His Grandnephew

By Dola Mitra on July 27, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

He looks so much like his granduncle, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, that when Chandra Kumar Bose was campaigning in his constituency, South Kolkata, as a candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), […]

Will Robots Replace Lawyers?

By Koli Mitra on July 27, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

With recent events highlighting the indispensability of lawyers, Koli Mitra, our Global Editor, chats with attorney Cathryn Zahn, to probe the issue of automation and its impact on performing legal tasks. KM: […]

New York: The Big Green Apple

By Koli Mitra on July 26, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

We’ve all heard the expression “heart of the city” – but did you know about the lungs of the city? Urban life is dense and congested. It demands breathing spaces – lakes, […]

Graffiti Still Fresh On Walls, The State Gears Up For Another Election

By Dola Mitra on June 17, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Graffiti from the Indian Parliamentary elections is yet to be washed off the walls. Whether on hamlet huts or town towers, political parties, darting towards the state elections of Bengal, which will […]

Flying down memory lane: a journalist recalls his own stormy ride aboard an An-32

By Sujan Dutta on June 13, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

The last time I flew in an Antonov 32 was unlike the first. In the first, I was excited. In the last, it was a droning pain. Yes, droning. The Indian Air […]

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