under Sumana Roy

Facebook to Bhaktbook

A Hindu devotional song calls out to Facebookers seen as sinners in need of redemption

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15 May 2013 | BY Sumana Roy
My Adventure with Bluetooth

Sumana Roy spends an afternoon in the company of a smuggler

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13 Mar 2013 | BY Sumana Roy
A Modern City, Forever Old

Amit Chaudhuri’s window to Calcutta shows a city where incompatible things miraculously coexist

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6 Mar 2013 | BY Sumana Roy
Words from This Anger

On the spontaneous literature of outrage the Delhi rape has evoked

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11 Jan 2013 | BY Sumana Roy
Pather Panchali

The farce surrounding one of India’s most important roads, National Highway 31

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20 Dec 2012 | BY Sumana Roy
Sleepless on Facebook

The nocturnal gathering of insomniacs on a social networking site

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3 Aug 2012 | BY Sumana Roy
Maa Maati Manush, and Motor Cars

Mamata Banerjee’s career has been bound to the automobile in strange ways. No wonder, then, the reader of her memoirs soon starts to play a game of car-spotting in the narrative

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30 May 2012 | BY Sumana Roy
Reading the Reader

On Tagore is as much about reading Rabindranath as it is about Amit Chaudhuri reading himself as a reader

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17 May 2012 | BY Sumana Roy
Planchette: A Dying Curiosity

An investigation of the disappearance of visiting ghosts

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22 Apr 2012 | BY Sumana Roy
From Tagore to Thakur

Durga puja pandals have clay figurines of Tagore. As do Saraswati puja ceremonies. Parents buy their kids Tagore dolls. In a state where the Left dismissed him as too elitist, Sumana Roy observes the canonisation of the poet-educationist

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16 Mar 2012 | BY Sumana Roy
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