That was a huge part of my childhood, I think, dancing.” Anjana Peddireddi, a Columbia College senior, tells me this a week earlier from across the cramped table we share at the near-empty Hungarian ...

Anirudh Bhowmick returned to Kolkata in 2022 with his wife Anjana and five-year-old son, after working in Bengaluru for over a decade. He had lost his father to covid and wanted to live close to ...