Anjana Basu

You might almost call it a non-event – afterwards I found none of the usual groups loitering on street corners, the roads around Gariahat were in almost lockdown mode, peppered with bored policemen.

What have we learned about the new normal? To take selfies after the jab?

This round goes to Mamata Banerjee with her dignified refusal to deliver a speech to the chants of Jai Shri Ram at Netaji's birth anniversary function

That's the question the author had when she tried to publish poems written by her domestic help

Covid is a scarlet letter, the thing that results in those affected being shunned.

Soumitra Chatterjee leaves behind a legacy and a presence that will be almost impossible to replace

A Puja during Covid, of court bans and thin crowds

Because of the covid pandemic, the question of crowd control is a crucial determinant in everyone’s planning for Durga Puja.

Right now our lives are uprooted – internet connectivity and mobile data are gone, milk is coming in a slow trickle – and what happened in the Sunderbans one can only guess.

Tomorrow, I will have to chase the missing gas cylinder – the distributor’s delivery boy claims that no one was home on the three occasions he attempted to deliver the cylinder in the past 10 days so the order was cancelled, writes Anjana Basu.

Rituparna Chatterjee puts together a cross-genre memoir where the tale of childhood abuse is transcreated through touches of magical realism

Soumitra’s versatility went beyond acting. This book gives him his due as a poet, thespian and painter.

A keepsake of the hateful enormities that stalk India is grounded on symbolism and takes flight in hope

An exacting, serious exegesis, lucidly written, is lit up by references from modern life

A deeply-researched, semi-fictionalised account of William Sleeman’s hunt of the thugs breathes the air of pre-Mutiny central India

Confident young women defiantly run the gauntlet of life in this debut collection

A sharply-styled debut pursues a mystery in a smoggy slum, carried along on small feet

Plassey, with its web of cruelty, loot and intrigue, is relived in fresh pungency

An engaging analysis of Eastern popular culture’s ascendancy

Varying fates of the victims of a social evil

Vidyasagar’s bust perhaps did self-destruct at the current state of affairs!