
On December 15, 1829 Raja Ram Mohun Roy, the architect of modern India and his friend Dwarkanath Tagore, the grandfather of poet Rabindranath Tagore, addressed an audience at Town Hall of Calcutta on the effect of indigo farming in Bengal…

Magnificent Coliseum Manacled by the rambunctious clematis, tiptoed upon by the rust-speckled pigeons these were the exemplary one-roomed tenements whose roofs were the upturned coal iron-boxes’ blazing plates that ironed the blue fabric of the sky with the determination of a one-man army out to crumble…