When filmmaker Imtiaz Ali speaks of Kolkata, his words flow like one of his screenplays – nostalgic, tender, and full of ...

Few diplomats have fallen in love with Kolkata the way Dr Andrew Fleming has. As the British Deputy High Commissioner for ...

It had everything: famine, destitution, overcrowding, the war, air raids and rationing. Calcutta was the city of every mofussil Bengali’s dream. The sombre message passed me by, and I thought of ...

Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) is a relatively young city, an amalgamation of villages (including one named Kalikata) formed after the English landed on the swampy shores of the Ganges in Bengal in the ...