Nazrul’s continuous interventions against communal polarisations had greatly ruffled the feathers of Hindu and Islamic orthodox sects.

Architecture in the historic city of Panam Nagar in Sonargaon poignantly reflects Bengal's history.

In such disjointed times, the young have taught us how we can let our silent resistance do the talking.

The memorial is worth a visit, both in terms of a vision of modernity and sanitisation of history.

Swaraj for Tagore was not just political freedom, but freedom from hunger, disease, servitude and ignorance.

In the down-to-earth arrogance of these two men who brush away their fears, this election has thrown us two amazing and unlikely Goliaths.

Set in 1946 in north Calcutta, the novel explores the clash of tradition and modernity in a rioting city.

A conservative estimate gave the dead in the 1979 violence as several hundreds of men, women and children who died either through starvation or were shot at and their bodies thrown into the Raimangal river.

The controversial film by Sanal Kumar Sasidharan is a ruthless exploration of power in its many avatars: through gender, ethnicity and religion.

The girl's little grave, marked by two large stones, cannot remain out of our collective sight.

The long and insidious assault on JNU is a glaring example of what is happening under our very noses. The storm clouds are very real and they are fierce enough.

What Supriya Devi endured while fleeing Burma may have brought out the underlying pathos and dignity of her performances in Ritwik Ghatak’s 'Meghe Dhaka Tara' and 'Komolgandhar'.

Why do the facts of the past make some uncomfortable? What are the influences and affects of the discipline of history that fill some people with so much hatred?