Ananya Dasgupta

Ananya Dasgupta began her career as a journalist with The Telegraph, Kolkata. She worked as an editor with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Archives in Mumbai, where she was responsible for the TIFR Oral History Project. She is now an editorial consultant with the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore. She has co-authored the book "A Masterful Spirit: Homi Jehangir Bhabha 1909-1966" (Penguin Books, 2010). Her first short story "Trieste" was published in Café Dissensus.
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Music schools turn to online learning during lockdown

Music schools have adapted their programmes to suit virtual learning.

How Mumbai set a brilliant example of how a protest should be: non-violent, yet charged with emotions

When the idea of India was being questioned, its Constitution threatened, Mumbai rose to the…

Lošinj, Croatia’s hidden jewel

The Adriatic Sea is, perhaps, at its most beautiful at this little fishing village in…

Visiting John Keats in Rome

At a quiet corner of the cemetery is a gravestone, strewn with violets and daisies.

AOC, the face of rising socialism in America, says her next goal is to learn Bengali

In June 2018, she ended one of her campaign videos saying, “Apnar voter jonye dhonnobad.”

Short story: Rain

The smell of the first drops of rain on parched earth. Summer holidays in Calcutta.…

The Curse: a short story

The snow fell relentlessly. And the days disappeared into the nights. It had been five…