Calcutta Confusion

Approaching Taratala from the south, one might notice on the left-hand side of the road a curious white-on-blue sign-board, which reads ...

I had written an article on Frank Clinger Scallan for Scroll . Scallan also did the illustrations for C.H. Donald's The Adventures of B...

H.E.A. Cotton Going through one of H.E.A. Cotton's copies of  Calcutta Old and New  I came across several newspaper clippings the a...

1898 onwards, Munshi Mehdi Hasan had written a number Urdu of adaptations from Shakespeare's plays. His Khun-e-nahaq (1898), Vikram ...

An attorney and an architect walked into the Jockey Club. In fact, it appears one of them lived half his life there for a while. Philip E...

Detail from map produced by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge In this post we look South West at a bridge that crosses...

The Maratha Ditch was dug by the citizens of Calcutta in the mid-1700s to guard against a possible Maratha attack. The canal at Chitpur was...