A Master’s student from Kolkata on the Bengali life in NYC, from Amartya Sen and Durga Puja to kathi rolls, and more ...

Prabhat Patnaik examines how neoliberalism has created powerful alliances between politicians and corporate leaders, ...

"No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy," observed Nobel Prize-winning ...

The UGC was for long considered essentially a funding body, not a watchdog over universities, let alone a body dictating to ...

It is with much sadness that I learned of the passing of my good friend Manmohan Singh. We have known each other since 1955, ...

All three major political parties contesting the high-octane Delhi Assembly elections have unveiled a barrage of freebies or ...

Mr. Ahamed is a researcher at the Amartya Sen-founded Pratichi Trust and is the convener of Know Your Neighbour, an initiative that aims at promoting communal harmony in West Bengal through ...

With the rapid modernisation and movement towards the digital, certain spaces become a material manifestation of culture and thought. One such place is Kolkata’s iconic College Street.

With high public debt, it is difficult for the Centre and State governments to choose between fiscal prudence and high ...

A new audit of Australia’s democracy finds it generally in good shape, but with pressing issues that need addressing.

He received his early education in Kolkata and passed his matriculation from St Gregory's High School in 1949, where he was a classmate of Amartya Sen, another noted economist and Nobel laureate.

Nalanda’s impact in the field of mathematics and astronomy was particularly significant in China as Amartya Sen notes: “Several Indian mathematicians and astronomers held high positions in ...