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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 )

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 […]

Twenty Years Later: The Missing Man and Memories of Kargil

By Sujan Dutta on May 29, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

In two poignant sorties this week, the head of the Indian Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa flew the “missing man” over stations at Bhisiana near the Punjab town of […]

Cramming For the Test!

By Dola Mitra on March 29, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Why politicians scurry around at election time, trying to snag votes they have done nothing to earn. It’s election season again. Which means it’s time for politicians to drag themselves to their […]

Excavation Site, Ancient Rome, View from Palatine Hill

By Koli Mitra on March 14, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

Two views of an ancient street, with storefronts (and maybe homes?) stunningly well preserved. A place where regular people lived and worked long ago.

The Goddess of Arts and Sciences

By Koli Mitra on February 14, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

We often think of faith and rationality — or art and science — as dichotomous and mutually exclusive. But human cognitive powers are way richer than that….  This last weekend, it was […]

Editorial Independence vs. Financial Realism: When the hand that feeds extracts a pound of flesh …

By Dola Mitra on February 9, 2019 • ( 2 Comments )

In this era of free content, subscription fees can’t keep publications afloat. So, advertisement, more than ever, is the lifeblood of professional journalism. But, in order to survive, is journalism becoming nothing […]

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