The international merchants raised Calcutta from the mud of the Ganges; the British nurtured, shaped, and christened it. The “Black Hole,” site of some brutal treatment of British military hostages ...

Deborah Baker writes about her early experience of Calcutta, meeting the poet Tarapada Ray, and learning about the Beat legend Allen Ginsberg’s odyssey in India – a discovery that would unfold as her ...

In February 1990 I married Amitav Ghosh before a crowd of strangers on the rooftop of his parents' house in Calcutta. Among them was the popular and prolific Bengali writer named Tarapada Roy. During ...

Calcutta, Aug. 25: Author Tarapada Roy died at SSKM Hospital today. He was 70. Roy, who had been hospitalised on July 10, succumbed to kidney failure around 2pm.

Police have started a case against Ashok Todi just a day after Murarka's son-in-law Tarapada Hazra lodged a complaint against them for forcibly separating him from his wife. KOLKATA: Police seem to ...

KENDRAPARA: Two sluice gates of a saline embankment, around two km from the sea, caved in on Sunday night at Bijulia, causing extensive damage to agricultural land in Dhaneswarpur, Tarapada, ...