Uttaran Das Gupta

Jan 7, 2025 | outlookindia.com | Uttaran Das Gupta

In 1888, while travelling through Calcutta, British poet and writer Rudyard Kipling stayed at the Great Eastern Hotel in the centre of the city. Now known mostly for "The Jungle Book" (1894), Kipling was born in Bombay and lived and worked in India for many years.

Jan 7, 2025 | outlooktraveller.com | Uttaran Das Gupta

Mark Twain described The Great Eastern Hotel as 'the best hotel east of Suez'“The Great Eastern hums with life through all its hundred rooms,” wrote Kipling. “Doors slam merrily, and all the nations of the earth run up and down the staircases.

Nov 29, 2024 | business-standard.com | Uttaran Das Gupta

In 1888, British writer and poet Rudyard Kipling visited Calcutta (now Kolkata), then the capital of the British Empire in India. The sprawling metropolis, where unimaginable wealth and decadence existed cheek by jowl with desperate poverty and disease, was described by Kipling, who would win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907, as "the city of dreadful night".

Nov 3, 2024 | business-standard.com | Uttaran Das Gupta

In recent months, a number of older Hindi films have been re-released in cinemas - with some box office success. These include blockbusters such as Maine Pyar Kiya (1989), Hum Aapke Hain Koun (1994), Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Pardes (1997), and Taal (1999), as well as hits from this century: Veer Zaara (2004), Jab We Met (2007), Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011), Rockstar (2011), Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (2013), and Dangal (2016).

Oct 19, 2024 | livemint.com | Uttaran Das Gupta

In the world of Bose’s novel, the minds and bodies of women are constantly under scrutiny. The men in their lives want to possess them like property. The state and society push them into performing utilitarian roles, like producing children or taking care of their families. Accompanying a friend to a fertility clinic, the protagonist is reminded of the first time she had her legs waxed. “I screamed as wax strips pulled the hair from my leg," she recalls.