On a chilly December evening in Hatbati village, under the open sky, the air was filled with a sense of nostalgia and excitement. Wrapped in warm shawls and blankets, villagers from Batiaghata upazila ...

New Delhi: Picture Delhi in the 1970s — a chilly night, makeshift stage, people huddled together, wide awake until 4am, watching Utpal Dutta's Jallianwala Bagh perform a jatra. For Siddhartha Dasgupta ...

Shinni is the food prepared and served with love by any community for spiritual cleansing. The long-lost word popped up again recently when vegan restaurateur Faiza Ahmed of Shanchayita decided to ...

Flashes of light, deafening music, a flourish of drums and then, silence. Next, half a dozen men and women enter with candles in hand. They punch the air even as the sound boxes begin to play the ...