“Each re-telling of those extraordinary tales of derring-do was invested with a sense of immediacy and cinematic detailing.” Chitralekha Basu concludes her memoir on the literature that shaped her.
“New constructions in the city — often featureless, rectilinear beehives built inside gated compounds — are frequently christened as a ‘court’, ‘manor’ or an ‘enclave’.” Part II of Chitralekha Basu’s look at how English is used in modern Calcutta.
“The tradition of adapting English words as part of Bengali colloquial speech is at least two-hundred-years old.” Chitralekha Basu explores the English language in everyday Bengali speech.
“Evidently, getting to like vegetarian meat is a matter of acquired taste and it’s a dish probably not for the faint-hearted.” Chitralekha Basu looks into the origins of an oxymoron in Calcutta.