Music is personal, intimate. Could you elaborate on your connection to it, and how it has shaped your journey? Who were your heroes growing up?

Ever since I was little — I can’t even remember exactly when, maybe five or six — I was drawn to sounds. Music was always around me: rock, hip-hop, indie. But it was only around 10 or 12 that I began writing and...

KOLKATA: Millions in Kolkata will draw on millennia-old traditions when they celebrate Durga Puja this week with street parties and worshipping idols in elaborate pavilions.

The ancient and divine now increasingly interact with the digital and futuristic as wildly popular artificial intelligence apps help generate new design ideas.

"Artisans are now using artifici...

At a time when the ever-vibrant city of joy prepares to transform itself into a dazzling tapestry of lights, with sound checks echoing from every stage as it gears up to welcome Maa Durga, there’s another side of Kolkata that hasn’t slept for the last few months. Deep into the narrow lanes of North Kolkata lies Kumartuli, where a rhythmic, almost meditative hammering sound fi...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday slammed the Central Government for what she saw as "misusing" the Indian Army to dismantle a stage erected by her party in Kolkata to protest alleged atrocities against Bengali-speaking migrant workers in BJP-ruled states.

"I don't blame the Army, but the BJP's vendetta politics is behind it. The double-engine governm...

The Kasba law college student has lived to tell the tale. The RG Kar trainee doctor did not.

Other than that, one of the most glaring differences between the alleged rape and murder of the doctor in Kolkata last August and the gang rape of the law student in the city on June 25 is the police handling of the two cases.

Kasba, so far, has been copybook, while the ...