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Rabindranath Tagore: The Globe-Trotting Bard
For 20 years, Rabindranath Tagore toured the world extensively and befriended legends, from Yeats to Einstein. He became a global phenomenon and, as he shared his work and philosophy, he fired imaginations, inspired other great minds and even courted controversy
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Saptagram: A Port that Ran Aground
From a money-spinner for great empires to an unremarkable railway halt today, it’s been a very long journey for the former port city of Saptagram. Catch the incredible story of its earlier avatar, Satgaon, whose fortunes rose and fell with Bengal’s shifting riverine geography
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South Park Street Cemetery: The Dead Still Tell Tales
From the most sought-after girl in Calcutta to some of history’s heavyweights, Kolkata’s sprawling South Part Street Cemetery offers interesting and sometimes even hilarious insights into the lives of Calcutta’s early European residents.
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Calcutta: Once an Anti-Pollution Pioneer
As Kolkata chokes its way through another smog-filled winter, here’s something to mull over – the city was only the second in the world to enact anti-air pollution legislation. Here’s a century-old lesson that is still relevant today...