Calcutta is one of the last places in the world where rickshaws remain a common mode of transportation. The International Herald Tribune reports that after 60 years of half-hearted attempts to ban man ...

I'm a Bengali girl who grew up in Calcutta (renamed Kolkata in 2001) and for me, Christmas is the most special festival. Many of the schools in the city – including the one I attended – are run by ...

2002-09-29 04:00:00 PDT Calcutta-- Rickshaw puller Mohammed Hussein is deterred neither by torrential rains that swamp Calcutta streets, nor the heavy-handed heat that melts the tar beneath his ...

Sankar brought Kolkata (then Calcutta) to life from the corridors of the Calcutta High Court to the bustling streets of ...

Calcutta’s map has seen Clive make way for Netaji and Harrington for Ho Chi Minh, with successive governments leaving the imprint of national pride and ideology on the city’s streets and buildings.

Born into Brothels, a new film documentary, tells the story of children growing up in poverty in Calcutta's red-light district who find hope in a newfound skill -- photography. NPR's Melissa Block ...

What will be the legacy of P Thankappan Nair? As a writer who employed many methods to construct the history of the common man? Historians use different constructs to retell history’s many platitudes: ...

Come spring, summer, monsoon, autumn or winter, the city of Calcutta turns into an expansive kitchen and whips up a buffet for its people with fresh ingredients, seasonal flavours and a bite that ...