Other nominees for the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature included Carl Spitteler, Ernst von der Recke, Verner von Heidenstam, ...

Bhima Bhoi (1850–1895), a saint-poet, mystic, and social reformer from Odisha, is one of the most remarkable figures in ...

Bina Das, 21, got up at her graduating ceremony to assassinate the governor of Bengal. He escaped and she was imprisoned for 9 years.

You have been resting in eternal sleep for more than fifty years now. You will never read this letter. Memory, conversation, politics, the world itself—these exist only for the living. Why, then, am I ...

A 1958 Mercedes-Benz W120, nearly lost to decay, becomes Kolkata’s most storied classic, thanks to the devotion of tea taster Prithvi Nath Tagore ...