Field Notes from a Waterborne LandIn the late 2000s, when the three decade long Left Front rule in West Bengal was crumbling, Parimal Bhattacharya began to travel outside the well trodden urban centres to different parts of the region from the Sundarbans to tribal Jangalmahal, from the outskirts of Kolkata to villages on the Bangladesh border, from the floodplains of the Hooghly to the forests of Simlipal in neighbouring Odisha. There, he encountered: a woman who was branded a witch

and he is a binder born

easy-to-make recipes

and a widow—who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War

the brilliant amateur who deciphered the script but met with a sudden

influencing random events and even reaching backward and forward through time

he survived an assassination attempt and spent five days in a coma before he literally came back from the dead

What it's like to guide a blind ex-RAF officer around the Top Gear track

engaging adventure

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Before Yo-Yo Ma became one of the most renowned and celebrated cellists

She’s one big case away from securing her place among London’s legal elite

Just as she's about to give up all hope of marriage