Historicity | Mamata’s constituency Bhowanipore is as old as it is fascinating

Bhowanipur or Bhabanipur has grown from a small village, which was a part of the 55 villages that the East India Company ...
Publishers Weekly

Calcutta: A Cultural and Literary History

Dutta depicts Calcutta's many faces in this erudite guide to the city, which is part of the Cities of the Imagination Series. The author, who was born and raised in Calcutta and who has translated ...
The Telegraph

A slice of history, and Old Calcutta, at exhibition in Sabarno Roy Chowdhury’s Behala house

A slice of history, and Old Calcutta, at exhibition in Sabarno Roy Chowdhury’s Behala house The 20th Kolkata International History and Heritage Exhibition, hosted by Sabarno Roy Chowdhury family’s ...
The Telegraph

Stories, streets and memory: Sripantha’s Kolkata revisits the city’s layered past

Sripantha’s Kolkata essays offer a window into colonial and early modern Calcutta life. They have now been translated into a book by Anita Kar The book was launched in the presence of (l-r) Dinesh ...