In nineteenth-century Bengal, a woman sat inside a crowded zamindari kitchen secretly trying to teach herself how to read.

The new CBSE policy for Class 9 mandates that students must study three languages (R1, R2, and R3), with at least two being ...

It is a few days after the BJP taking over power in West Bengal, and I am strolling down the streets of Jadavpur in south Kolkata. In this area, there is no celebration of the kind shown on television ...

Bengaluru's Cubbon Park hosts a silent reading ritual every Saturday, drawing hundreds of readers for a peaceful escape. What began as a small gathering has grown into a vibrant community, fostering ...

The usual suspects are up in arms at the news Lupita Nyong’o will play the mythic beauty in the new movie The Odyssey. Our Writer at Large ...

In 1953, a Brazilian woman in her early fifties stepped off a plane in Delhi at the personal invitation of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. She was not a politician – she was a poet. Cecília Meireles ...

Posts shared thousands of times across X, Instagram and Facebook include captions such as “you’re going to want the sound on for this video of the Green Party celebrating thei ...

We usually understand language as a means of communication between people. But language is not limited to communication alone; it also affects or shapes power structures and sociocultural identity. In ...

On May 28, 2026, the last of the progenitors of modern Urdu poetry, Bashir Badr, left the grand mushaira of the living and ...

Tota Roy Chowdhury recalled his heartwarming meeting with Thalapathy Vijay during Kaththi, revealing how the superstar humbly called himself “just a regional actor”.

A joint team of the Health Department and the Drug Control Department busted a fake clinic in the New Palam Vihar area in a ...

The former ruling party, once a mainstay of Bangladeshi politics, has largely disappeared from public political life. But its ...