Seeking Refuge

Religious dissension partitioned of India in 1947. Two states, Bengal and Punjab, were spliced into two. An entire repertoire of Bengali literature, with its distinct echoes in cinema, documents the agony....

Caught in a Web!

The protagonist of Kunal Basu’s Kalkatta inhabits  the world that we happily deny. Baishali asks, “With a dingy box for a home, an ailing old man for a father, a crippled...