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 ...

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 ...

Think of the Bengali kathak, the storyteller – at once an orator, a singer of some capacity, an actor, and a man of wit and some learning. William Ward, the Baptist missionary, described in detail the ...

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Sudhanya Basu remembers a childhood surrounded by Bengali culture. Growing up in Kharagpur, India, she spent days reading Satyajit Ray's mystery novels and watching director Mrinal Sen's award-winning ...

The origin and development of Bengali literature for children can be dated back to the times when colonial modernity began to emerge. Perhaps beginning from the fascinating tales of Thakurmar Jhuli ...

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For many years during my childhood, both my maternal and paternal grandparents would live with us, alternating every six months. As a kid, this meant I had built-in friends — I grew up on a steady ...

Assam, India – At around midnight of November 29, 2016, Morjina Bibi was woken up by repeated knocks on her door. “When I opened the door, I saw two female police officers. Within a minute, several ...