In the middle of an ever-expanding concrete jungle in Beliaghata stands Hyderi Manzil, a 400sqm, single-storey, 19th-century structure on a 1,000sqm plot. Now better known as Gandhi Bhavan, this ...

An explosion, a conspiracy, and an unlikely duo on a mission to expose the truth.

On Independence Day in 1947, Gandhiji wasn’t in Delhi unfurling the Tricolour. He was in Calcutta. Mahatma Gandhi arrived in the city on August 9, 1947 at Sodepur with the intention of proceeding ...

One man’s journey through the events of 1947 and 1971, and his experience of being a refugee and then a stateless person. Before the Partition of British India (1947), Calcutta (Kolkata) was as much ...