Calcutta

A personal essay

Beyond 1947 is a personal essay by Sunita Chowdhurie about the two grandmothers who shaped her, women who never called it Independence, only Partition. Through memory, food, and quiet endurance, it traces what was lost and rebuilt when a border cut through Bengal.
4 September 2026

Hope fades for survivors as India flyover toll hits 25

The death toll from a collapsed flyover in eastern India rises to 25, after emergency workers toiled through the night to find any remaining survivors trapped under huge slabs of concrete and metal girders.
1 April 2016

India Kolkata flyover collapse: At least 18 dead

A flyover under construction in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata (Calcutta) collapses, killing at least 18 people and injuring others.
31 March 2016

The 'Kabuliwala' Afghans of Kolkata

Thousands of Afghans have lived for decades in the Indian city of Kolkata (Calcutta). Moska Najib and Nazes Afroz captured the stories of this little-known community.
23 May 2015

India train blast wounds several in Kolkata

At least 14 people are injured in a bomb attack aboard a train at a station near the eastern Indian city of Kolkata (Calcutta).
12 May 2015

Nehru govt spied on Subhas Chandra Bose's family for 20 years: Report

The Jawaharlal Nehru government had placed the family and relatives of Subhas Chandra Bose on surveillance for two decades.
10 April 2015