Articles by Freya Dasgupta

Freya Dasgupta

Sing A Song Of Scrumptiousness

When Sawan Dutta, decided to combine two Bong loves—music and food—the result was bound to be an instant...

Oct 13, 2016 Freya Dasgupta
The Soldier Who Never Killed

A new Mel Gibson film in the pipeline on Desmond Doss, who won America's highest military award without ever...

Sep 05, 2016 Freya Dasgupta
Violence Not A Lens To Judge Christianity By

Christianity and Islam have had bloody histories but one can’t hold a Muslim accountable for violating any...

Aug 27, 2016 Freya Dasgupta
Feminism And Other Challenges

It is not Lisa Hayden's fault that she doesn't want to be identified as a feminist. It is the world she grew...

May 27, 2016 Freya Dasgupta
Diwali And The Boy In The Balcony

A pithy fable on the festival of light...

Nov 11, 2015 Freya Dasgupta
Between Dreams And Reason

??Rushdie is at his fantastical best but the message he conveys through this allegorical novel is way too...

Oct 19, 2015 Freya Dasgupta
When A God Fell From Grace

Reading Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman left me rather unaffected and unmoved.

Jul 28, 2015 Freya Dasgupta
Three Short Stories About Delhi

He smacks the man on the bicycle twice on his head. The man, probably in his late 40s, does not retaliate.

Jun 13, 2015 Freya Dasgupta
Do Barfis And Jalebis Have A Religion?

What's the point of blaming the government if we treat fellow citizens and minorities with suspicion and...

Mar 25, 2015 Freya Dasgupta
Saraswati Puja In Times Of Self-Exile

It is only in Delhi's CR park market that I realise how much of Calcutta lives in me.

Jan 25, 2015 Freya Dasgupta
The Annual Exhumation

Why is it so necessary to narrate and re-narrate the same stories in painful details every year? As far as I...

Nov 06, 2014 Freya Dasgupta
The Ramzaan Platter

This is perhaps one of the best times to walk through the labyrinth of lanes and by-lanes in Old Delhi and...

Jul 28, 2014 Freya Dasgupta
A Day's Not Enough

I find myself wanting to go back to Amritsar and live there for a few days, walk around its bazaars and bask...

Apr 16, 2014 Freya Dasgupta
Breaking The Silence

If anyone is to be blamed for the fact that such atrocities continue to happen against women, it's me and my...

Dec 02, 2013 Freya Dasgupta
Calcutta Corner

Now that poriborton is setting in, I find my city changing bit by bit and every annual visit rubs it in my...

Jul 20, 2012 Freya Dasgupta
The Music And The Muse

It was raw and crude and so mesmerizing. It wasn't just the music, it was the passion with which they sang,...

Mar 15, 2012 Freya Dasgupta
Happiness

So what is it? We asked our website news desk team, which never seems to stop giggling hysterically, to sum...

Nov 21, 2011 Freya Dasgupta
Nothing Happened

She went and complained to the college’s Sexual Harassment Cell. She was told that they could not help her...

Nov 08, 2011 Freya Dasgupta