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 ...

A new Bengali film, Dhaki, explores the fading tradition of live dhak players at Durga Puja. Seventy-year-old Tilak Dhaki ...

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 ...

The boatmen put up the sails of seven boats from the mahajan’s godown of garan wood at Shyamganj as soon as the tide ebbed in the river Hooghly. The mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters of thirty ...

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 ...

Short film Unbroken for Mental Health Awareness Month emphasizes addressing grief, mental health crises, and support system. Directed by Ayan Sil, featuring Devlina Kumar, Gourab Chatterjee as husband ...