Manto and Chugtai: Smell, Dog, Quilt and so much more
“Two or three years after Partition, the governments of India and Pakistan decided that just as there had been a cordial exchange of prisoners, there should now be a similar…
Soumyanetra Munshi
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: A Roller-Coaster Through Time
ALBUS takes the Time-Turner from SCORPIUS - he presses down upon it and the Time-Turner begins to vibrate, and then explodes into a storm of movement. And with it the…
Story of Atashi… and many more like her
A lot of the news nowadays covers stories of abominable crimes surfacing in a remote rural pocket of West Bengal. While looking at some of them on television, I often…
On Reading Nabokov’s Lolita
I finished reading Nabokov’s Lolita again after many years, and this time it was strange reading it as the mother of an eleven-year old daughter. There are some books that…
Menarche: Entering the Strange Land of Adulthood
It was April and we were all getting ready for parents-teacher meeting in my daughter’s school, when I noticed her inner wear were smeared with red stains. She would turn…
For the times they are a-changin’: Of fishes, books and online transactions
Gobindo, the fish-seller, sat smoking bidis, amidst piles of silvery, shining fishes of different kinds, every evening, just where the street began as an off-shoot from the Lake Town main…
Homo Deus: From Being Masters to Marionettes
Imagine this. You have to travel from one place to another. You have two options. Human driver driven taxi or an-AI-algorithm-controlled automatic taxi. You know the associated traits of each…
Sapiens: Myth, Foraging and Agriculture
“On a hike in East Africa 2 million years ago, you might well have encountered a familiar cast of human characters: anxious mothers cuddling their babies and clutches of carefree…
WEIRDest People and Us
When I first went abroad to the US for my PhD, I, like most other Indians, was very surprised by many of the customs and ways of life that I…
Remembering Khudiram: The Smiling Young Martyr
The Statesman, May 2 1908: “The Railway station was crowded to see the boy. A mere boy of 18 or 19 years old, who looked quite determined. He came out…
“Dancing on the heads of snakes”: A Glimpse into Yemen
The other day I came across a copy of an old newspaper - The Statesman (Kolkata edition) of August 4th 1994. As I browsed through the headlines for a glimpse…
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