Paramita Ghosh

It is perhaps hard being a ‘prophet’ in your own time and country—unless you are French. James Baldwin found support for his literature and his sexuality in ’60

Poet-publisher Naveen Kishore's poems from Mother Muse Quintet are a way of looking in, to express a certain human condition, ‘personal and national.' Delhi.

CHENNAI: With the lights dimmed, the ghosts walked in. Poet-publisher Naveen Kishore’s performance of poetic fragments at the ongoing IHC theatre festival evoke

In the film Mahalaya, one Bengali bureaucrat in North Block catches hold of another and ticks him off for giving the 4 am Birendra Krishna Bhadra's radio rendition welcoming Goddess Durga a miss — and having done so, he had ‘lost' his culture to Delhi.

In the campaign film for Raw Mango's latest festive collection, ‘Garland', two different ideas of marriage are crossed to put together a wedding for a new-age couple. In the film, foreheads crease, family gatherings in the living room see some heat, but the institution of marriage receives no serious threat.

Dalrymple on the cultural and economic heft of ancient India, a Chinese ruler sold on an Indian faith, and why he uses Indian and Indic interchan

It’s mid-afternoon and entrepreneur Kalyani Saha Chawla, in a white Zara shirt and Golden Goose jeans, is all business and bustle at her store in Defence Colony

It’s mid-afternoon and entrepreneur Kalyani Saha Chawla, in a white Zara shirt and Golden Goose jeans, is all business and bustle at her store in Defence Colony

While VP Singh's Mandal Commission altered Indian politics forever, making affirmative action for OBCs irreversible, in his private moments towards the end of his life he wondered if he had made the right decision.

The end of The Iliad is marked by two funerals and a rage. In the 23rd book of the epic poem, the great Greek hero Achilles mourns the death of his friend Patro