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Society / International

February 06 2023

Books from Thailand make their way to the Book Fair for the first time

The fair is filled with enthusiasts ranging from kids to adults

By Suranjana Mitra

November 25 2022

What made Australia call Tagore the ‘Prophet’?

Tagore was an Indian from a British colony to win the Nobel

By Information Desk

October 17 2022

La’au, Kaninit, Nadakkavukaran, and other names that America has taught m...

Part eleven of Dr Partha Bandyopadhyay’s American saga

By Dr. Partha Bandopadhyay

October 10 2022

When my North Kolkata upbringing met America’s sexual liberation

Part ten of Dr Partha Bandyopadhyay’s American saga

By Dr. Partha Bandopadhyay

September 26 2022

What good is an autobiography that doesn’t tell the whole truth?

Part nine of Dr Partha Bandyopadhyay’s American saga

By Dr. Partha Bandopadhyay

September 19 2022

Learning to speak ‘American’, and my first paper published

Part eight of Dr Partha Bandyopadhyay’s American saga

By Dr. Partha Bandopadhyay

September 05 2022

A miserable failure in Biology, and I was supposed to be a professor!

Part seven of Dr Partha Bandyopadhyay’s American saga

By Dr. Partha Bandopadhyay

August 29 2022

Hemanta, Manna, and the battle between two super successful Bengalis

Part six of Dr Partha Bandyopadhyay’s American saga

By Dr. Partha Bandopadhyay

August 23 2022

How America deals with PNPC…or not!

Part five of Dr Partha Bandyopadhyay’s American saga

By Dr. Partha Bandopadhyay

August 16 2022

Would all colour fade from life forever?

Part four of Dr Partha Bandyopadhyay’s American saga

By Dr. Partha Bandopadhyay

August 08 2022

Mericamaya Satkahan: Potato chips with rice, and other trials

Part three of Dr Partha Bandyopadhyay’s American saga

By Dr. Partha Bandopadhyay

August 01 2022

Mericamaya Satkahan: Living in the USA…on $380 a month

Part two of Dr Partha Bandyopadhyay’s American saga

By Dr. Partha Bandopadhyay

July 25 2022

Mericamaya Satkahan: Friendless in a distant land

A saga covering over three decades of the migrant experience

By Dr. Partha Bandopadhyay

December 28 2021

Museum that reminds us of the truth of 71

What makes Dhaka's Muktijuddho Museum unique

By Yajnaseni Chakraborty

August 06 2021

Remembering Kolkata's 'Japani' bombs on Hiroshima Day

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were part of the Allied plan to make Japan suffer for its attack on Allied territories in Asia

By Yajnaseni Chakraborty

May 26 2021

Bengal’s ‘Machher Jhol’ travels all the way to Masterchef Australia

Kishwar Chowdhury’s ‘Machher Jhol’ wins the hearts of the judges at Masterchef Australia

By TTW

March 26 2021

Bangladesh at 50, defined by ‘Bengaliness’

The pride in our 50th year of Independence trumps religion and the two-nation theory

By Daud Haider

February 17 2021

Just roll it up!

Entrepreneur Payal Saha takes Kolkata’s ‘Kati Rolls’ to New York City

By Information Desk

December 16 2020

On Vijay Diwas, remembering the man who gave Bangla its identity

Vijay Diwas is observed in both India and Bangladesh, and a new book tries to reevaluate the man who led the charge

By Yajnaseni Chakraborty

December 10 2020

The Bengali in Joe Biden’s cabinet

A boy from Kolkata may be one of the USA’s most influential government officials

By Information Desk

December 04 2020

Among the 100 most influential persons in the UK-India relationship

Piali Ray has been developing and spreading South Asian Arts and Heritage in UK

By

November 12 2020

Purity first: Bangladesh's attempts to rediscover Nazrul

A concerted effort by a group of prominent Bangladeshi singers

By Yajnaseni Chakraborty

November 12 2020

Kolkata’s Heritage Ambassador Taxi now on Sydney Streets!

Meet James Robinson who introduced it alongside taxis from New York and London

By Indranil Halder

March 29 2020

Spending days in a devastated Italy

Why is the lockdown important?

By Sabyasachi Siddhanta

March 27 2020

Germany has not faced such a crisis since World War II

But Germany will not likely be Italy

By Shaibal Giri

March 24 2020

How a Paris-returned student on home quarantine is being shunned by the Kol...

Do not ostracize all students who return home from abroad

By Neiil Ray

March 23 2020

How Munich stopped itself from turning into another Italy!

Shaibal Giri from Munich, Germany writes a first-person account

By Shaibal Giri

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