David Bowie: An Avid Reader

For a man who left Bromley Technical High School with just one 'O' level (in art), David Bowie ended up a remar...

Picture Books and Coming-of-age Stories

As research on transgender and gender nonconforming children and youth becomes increasingly prevalent in litera...

Electric Women

What if the gender equation were to be reversed so that women could not just defend themselves against violent males but also overpower them...

Has Justice for Women in India Improved?

In 1890, a case of a Bengali child bride named Phulmani, who died following brutal conjugal intercourse went to trial in the Calcutta Sessio...

In Honour of Fearless Nadia

The year was late 1930s. The world saw the emerging of fictional superheroes and cinema was entering the fantasy world. The names of the cap...

Bangladesh Film Festival 2018 held in Kolkata

This is the first time in recent public memory that a film festival was organized officially between Bangladesh and West Bengal. The Bangladesh Film Festival, which was hel...

Boys for Sale: An Intriguing Documentary about Gay Prostitution in Japan

“If you’d never experienced this, it would be hard to understand.”

That’s the first line of Boys for Sale, a documentary that had its North ...

By The Sea

Jennifer Egan’s 2011 novel, on her Pulitzer. Experimental in form, the book had thirteen chapters from different points of view a...

The Women who rocked the World in 2017

Who ran the world in 2017? Women did. And the most powerful of them who brought a change to the society identified a new generation of icons...