In 1742, fear of Maratha raids prompted the British and locals in Calcutta to dig a three-mile defensive trench. Though never ...

Kolkata – or Calcutta, as some still prefer to call it – is a city that lives simultaneously in past and present. Established by India’s British colonial masters in the 18th century, it has since been ...

Kolkata loves to mythologise its own pluralism; yet here, in the diminishing footprint of India’s Chinese-origin community, ...

The trams that were once ubiquitous in Kolkata are staging a comeback. This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ...

A year after the RG Kar rape-murder Swarupa Dutt looks at the city where it happened, Kolkata -- a study in dichotomy, at once the self-proclaimed cultural capital of India as also a petri dish for a ...

Only five Indian citizens have won the Nobel Prize, and four of them have a deep Kolkata connection. This is a source of great pride to us with roots in that city. But when I went to the U.S. I ...

From upstate New York in the 1980s, we took multiple airplanes across what felt like incalculable stretches of earth to reach my mother’s native city, and when, half a world later, we’d step out onto ...