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How Lionel Messi went from the tiniest boy on the field to the biggest athlete in the world

MIAMI — Long before Lionel Messi was a larger-than-life soccer icon with 468 million Instagram followers, before he became one of the world’s richest athletes and immortalized on giant murals from Buenos Aires to Barcelona to Calcutta to Miami, he was the tiniest boy on the field at Grandoli, the…

Miami Herald · Jul 15, 2023

Colonial Bengal explored through ‘pat’ paintings at DAG’s art show in Delhi

DAG exhibition on art from early 20th Century Bengal

The Hindu · Jun 30, 2023

West Bengal State Election Commission moves SC challenging HC order for deployment of Central forces

The West Bengal State Election Commission moved Supreme Court challenging the Calcutta High Court order directing deployment of Central forces in State panchayat elections.

The Hindu · Jun 17, 2023

Who Owns Your Media: The Indian Express empire and where it stands today

Twenty-three years ago, Robin Jeffrey, a professor of politics at Melbourne’s La Trobe University, had described Ramnath Goenka’s “Indian Express empire” as the “grandest version of newspapers with some link to the ‘freedom struggle’” in his book. When Goenka died in 1991, Jeffrey wrote in India’s Newspaper Revolution: Capitalism, Politics…

Newslaundry · Mar 25, 2023

March Madness: 5 bracket alternatives you need to try, from Calcuttas to confidence pools

From Calcuttas to box pools.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Mar 13, 2023

Sports calendar of Great Britain and India unveiled

KOLKATA: In a unique collaboration, the British High Commission and the Calcutta Sports Journalist Club (CSJC) came out with a sports table calendar at a ceremony at the CSJC tent in Calcutta on Monday.

The Times of India · Jan 31, 2023

A city's hope, despair and anger on big screen

Mrinal Sen’s films on Kolkata are a nuanced reading of middle-class hopes and aspirations in post-colonial India.

360info · Jan 8, 2023

Sprawling Kolkata's tall order for a sustainable future

Colonial planning was about attracting people to Kolkata, post-colonial planning is more about crisis management.

360info · Jan 8, 2023

Nottingham path 'dark as Black Hole of Calcutta' due to overgrown trees

'Someone could get murdered mugged'

Nottingham Post · Oct 2, 2022

Teachers Recruitment Scam: ED files complaint against 8 accused including Partha Chatterjee, Arpita Mukherjee

Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has filed a prosecution complaint against eight accused including Partha Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee in the Teachers Recruitment Scam in West Bengal before the PMLA Special Court, Calcutta. Read more on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News · Sep 20, 2022