In 'Framing Portraits, Binding Albums', edited by Shilpi Goswami and Suryanandini Narain, dwells on the importance of family ...

GAZA is a wasteland of 50 million tons of rubble and debris. Rats and dogs scavenge amid the ruins and fetid pools of raw ...

The birth of journalism in India began with the Bengal Gazette, which was the first newspaper of India, starting publication ...

Is there a case for reparations? Oxfam’s huge estimate of the money drained from India by Britain’s colonial rule does not ...

Historian Fazlul Hasan notes that in mid-1800s, a water bearer would draw from tanks and deliver it in leather bags in ...

Britain, and the world as a whole, has changed immeasurably in those six decades - yet Sir Winston's figure still looms large ...

John Cartier, Governor of Bengal, died on this day. Cartier was first employed as a writer for the British East India Company ...

Serampore or Shrirampur, call it what you may, this little historic town in Bengal is a treasure trove for those interested ...

"This would be enough to carpet the surface area of London in British pound 50 notes almost ... The report further pointed out the devastating Bengal famine of 1943, which resulted in an estimated ...

Trinamul Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee today condemned the statement of Mohan Bhagwat, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief as anti-national and said this was uncalled for.

“We sell modestly—in Bengal, in Bangladesh,” said Gupta ... “You have to view it like the British Council (as it once was) or like the Goethe Institute of Germany—as an institution that is worth ...