Shoma A. Chatterji

Once fretting over a population explosion, India now faces a fear of the slow implosion of its demographic engine. Something quite scary is happening to the demographics of the country. In recent times, for the first time in the long history of demographic growth of the country, the Total Fertility Rate at present in the rural and small-town areas, has come down to 2.1. Total Fertility Rate is a demographic indicator representing the average number of children a woman would have in her...

Bangla, once a proud symbol of culture and resistance, has now become a politically charged marker of suspicion and identity. In recent...

From the potters’ quarters of Kumartuli to Kolkata’s neon-lit pandals, the Durga Pooja remains Bengal’s greatest pageant and a reminder...