Krishna Dutta

The First Asian Nobel Laureate Who Redefined World Literature. Discover the extraordinary journey of Rabindranath Tagore, whose words captivated literary giants like W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, earning him global acclaim and a permanent place in literary history. Based on ten years of meticulous research by a Bengali and an English writer, this richly illustrated biography explores the fascinating tensions between East and West, tradition and modernity, admiration and rejection that shaped Tagore’s life

Dal is to India what pasta is to Italy. Cheap to produce, highly nutritional, suitable for long storage and capable of being cooked in a basic pot on an open fire, dal has been providing nourishment to millions of Indians for millennia. It truly is a pan-Indian dish consumed by rich and poor alike. It is high protein and has practically no sugar in fact it is known as poor mans meat in India hence doctors now include this as an essential item in a diet for diabetics.

Calcutta (renamed Kolkata in 2001) is a city of extremes, where exquisite refinement rubs shoulders with coarse commercialism and political violence. Krishna Dutta explores these multiple paradoxes, giving personal insight into Calcutta's unique history and modern identity as reflected in its architecture, literature, cinema, and music.