Saturday, 27 February 2016

Time Travel in College Street

College Street is probably the closest thing to time travel in Bengal. Books from different eras sit next to each other, as if time has folded. In physics, time travel is still theoretical. But memory allows something similar. We revisit old thoughts, old versions of ourselves. Maybe we are always traveling in time, just not physically.

Democracy, Bengal, and Us

West Bengal has always been more than just a state. It’s emotion, argument, adda , poetry, protest, and pride—all mixed together. People he...