The author and critic is spearheading a campaign to preserve the Bengali houses of his birthplace. He explains why reconnecting with the city’s cosmopolitan architectural heritage is crucial to ...

Shalom Israel, the former caretaker of Beth El Synagogue and undertaker of the Jewish cemetery, wearing the Tefillin during a weekday morning prayer in August 2014. He left Calcutta for Israel that ...

The NGO, People United for Better Living in Calcutta or PUBLIC, turned 25 this year. Setting aside the temptation to look back and celebrate peaks climbed and milestones crossed, they chose to look at ...

Khan, triggered a row in the TMC by announcing 48 hours before the repoll that he was stepping out of the race ...

"Taxi Ride" Photographer: Gour, 16 Living at home with his mohter, Gour hopes to go to college someday. "I want to show in pictures how people live in this city," Gour says in the book Born into ...