Every year, long before the city streets of Kolkata come alive with the clatter of puja preparations, millions of Bengalis wake to a familiar 4am sound: "Ashwiner sharad praate…”, the recitation of ...

There was a time when the strains of a Baul gaan (songs) and a Murshidi gaan floated together over Bengal’s paddy fields, when Hindus and Muslims, bound by the same rhythms of harvest and hardship, ...