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A Beloved Publishing House and a Business Model of Impulsive Ethics
Many of us know the story of Seagull, the independent publishing house that boasts of the giants of world literature and academia on their list. A documentary takes us inside their intuitive and unusual business calculations.
Sep 14, 2023
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The Professor Who Had to Spend Half His Life to Make the Drug India Needs
Sujoy Guha has spent 37 years trying to realise Risug, a long-term use reversible male contraceptive – itself an unusual thing. It should have come to be more than a decade ago.
Nov 19, 2019
This 'Untouchable' Caste is Indispensable to Kolkata Hospitals
The members of one clan of Doms, the caste of corpse burners, work in all the government morgues of Kolkata. They have held these jobs for two or three generations.
Dec 18, 2018
A Tale of Two Doctors and India's History of Hiding Its Diseases
A Bengal doctor has been suspended after he wrote a Facebook post on the dengue crisis. The case is similar to another doctor in Mumbai who was ‘raided’ for identifying totally-drug-resistant TB cases.
Nov 17, 2017
How the Public Tragedy of the Kolkata Flyover Collapse Was Buried
More than one year since the Kolkata flyover collapse that killed 26, the criminal trial has not begun. The police are not speaking on the record. And the government is silent.
Apr 20, 2017
For a Few Minutes More: A Family Remembers Kolkata's Flyover Collapse
On March 31, 2016, a flyover came crashing down, killing 27 people. The Bengal government, however, forgot that it’s been a year since the tragedy.
Apr 02, 2017