The life and spirit of Calcutta are dominated by two towering figures: Mother Teresa, firstly, and secondly, Rabindranath Tagore. The ...

A decaying grandeur is the whole tenor of contemporary Calcutta. It is epitomized by the so-called 'Marble Palace', a private resi...

              By a stroke of good fortune a recent visit to the imposing masterpiece, the Victoria Memorial at the south end of the ...

The great Kali Temple in south Calcutta, Kalighat, is said to be the oldest and most important Kali temple in India. It is, whatever t...

Durga slays the Demon, oil painting, 19th C.  unknown artist, Victoria Memorial collection, Calcutta Finding himself in old Ca...

After sixty years of hostility and several bloody wars it is easy to forget that Pakistan and India share a common culture. Partition has ...

Carlos Castaneda Something went horribly wrong with the discipline of anthropology during the counter-culture revolution of the...