Premankur Biswas

“I never thought I will live to see this day,” says Sahni, who was a member of AIDS Bhedbhav Vidroh Andolan (ABVA), the first organisation to file a petition asking for Section 377, which criminalises homosexuality, to be struck down.

What it means to be a queer person in small-town Uttar Pradesh. Gorakhpur's hoardings, like those of hundreds of small towns in India, is asking its young to leave in no uncertain terms.

One of the foremost filmmakers of our time, Mrinal Sen matched his strident politics with breathtaking storytelling. As he turns 95 on May 14, a look at the enduring arc of his work and how the man who was known for his plainspeak was also a master at looking inwards.

The principal of the Kolkata school, Moon Moon Nath, rubbished the allegations and said Abhijit Kundu himself asked to be removed as a full-timer.

The parents blamed the school for arm-twisting the girls into signing the written admission. The school said the move was aimed at bringing the students on “the right course”.

A photo project tries to capture the dreams and vulnerabilities of LGBTQI people in India.

When Sabyasachi stated that Indian women who don't know how to wear saris should be ashamed of themselves, he didn't explicitly state that Indian women should wear saris at all times. But to burden them with a compulsion is unfair.

The Park Street cemetery, which is now 250 years old, is home to stories of Kolkata’s past and present.

Supriya Devi, famous for her role in Meghe Dhaka Tara, lived on her own terms on and off screen. She passed away at 85

Two lawyers, who have performed as a drag queens in a number of queer events in Delhi for the past few months talk about their love for drag, understanding gender roles and how their profession inspired them to embrace their drag persona.

The sailor, whose service was terminated by the Indian navy after a gender reassignment surgery, explains why she is fighting back.

Does Bengali cinema have a Rituparno Ghosh problem?

Mahasweta Devi, who was born to a poet father, Manish Ghatak, and a social worker-writer mother, Dharitri Devi, in Dhaka in 1926, never shied away from politics.

On July 31, 1995, the first mobile phone call in India was made in Calcutta — an event that surprised the rest of the country and transformed the lives of many

Q’s new film is not playing at a theatre near you; the director of Brahman Naman on showing on Netflix, the women in his films and his fascination with boys on the throes of manhood.

The death of paranormal investigator Gaurav Tiwari has put the spotlight on a little-known profession

For a long time, Manohar Aich was an exotic exception in a cerebral Bengali male world. He would probably have felt more at home today.

Once an important landmark of the city, an assortment of imported vehicles would be parked outside the building through the 1940s to the 1980s, say an admirer

A photo exhibition in Kolkata on the last generation of jatra artistes reveals the people holding up a dying art form.

What do you do when you just can’t date in your backyard? Download an app, and take a trip around the world.

On the film-maker's third anniversary, we remember one of Indian film industry's revolutionary film-makers, Rituparno Ghosh.

Sunita, 42, who was a part of the tragic Everest expedition of May 20, was flown into the city on Saturday evening.

Jyoti Basu’s laminated photo is the only spot of colour in an office with three leaders buried under papers, posters, and hemmed in, they say, by TMC threat

Abanindranath Tagore’s iconic 1905 watercolour Bharat Mata is now on display at the Victoria Memorial Hall.