Singer, Actor, Composer and Eccentric Published @ Wire Review of A Bhattacharjee and P Dhar, Kishore Kumar: The Ultimate Biography (HarperCollins, 2022). The Many Lives of Kishore… By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Dec 7, 2022 | Tags: Biography, Cinema, Kishore | Read More
The family and the city Published @ Biblio India Chandak Sengoopta has had a less-than-conventional training. He studied to be a medical doctor in Calcutta, did his doctoral research in the US on the history of medicine and is now a historian of colonial and postcolonial India in Birkbeck College, London. His first book was a study of the notorious Viennese philosopher Otto Weininger’s controversial work on identity, while his next two books – Imprint of the Raj: How Fingerprinting was Born in Colonial India (Macmillan, 2003)… By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Dec 1, 2016 | Tags: Biography, Book Review, Calcutta | Read More