Bengali literature has had a rich history of prose, beginning more or less in the early 19th century under the colonial Raj. Calcutta's presence as the British Empire's capital in the colony shaped ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. By now, it’s an old joke: Molière’s Bourgeois Gentilhomme discovers that he has been speaking something called ...

Independence Day is celebrated every year on August 15, marking India’s freedom from colonial rule. The Prime Minister hoists the national flag at the Red Fort in Delhi, and the entire country joins ...

Durga Puja isn’t just about pandal hopping and feasting in Kolkata — it is also about family time, childhood memories and nostalgia that refuses to die. It is this emotion that many filmmakers have ...

If you want to dive deeper into Bengali literature but language is a barrier, there are good translated works that come to the rescue. For instance, The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories, an ...