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It is unsettling to think of how widespread slave trade was in the Bengal and adjacent regions in the 16th-17th c, and its near absence from contemporary public memory. From

On your left: image from Google Photos courtesy Arup Halder, a view of the dinghy lending room of the Kalyani Public Library from 2019. The last shelf is for young

.@SharanyaHK wanted me to write about the public library of my childhood, but there was one problem: I can only have mixed feelings about it.https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/kalyani-public-library-community-spaces_in_5f5316c9c5b6578026ce

The coverage of the late actor's death has been nothing but shameful in English media, but we don't speak enough of what's going on in other languages. Which - let's