A story from the past offers insights into our troubled present. It's a story written in the 19th century that is popular in India. In it, a girl in India becomes friends with an Afghan migrant, which ...

KOLKATA, India — When Ahmed Khan fled to India from his native Afghanistan three years ago, he left behind the constant din of rocket fire and a desperate search for work in a broken economy. He also ...

This time, the iconic character of “Kabuliwala” will be portrayed by veteran actor Mithun Chakraborty. Joining him in the cast are Sohini Sarkar as Mini's mother and Abir Chattopadhyay as her father.

"I can’t stop time Papa. I have to grow up,” five-year-old Leela told her filmmaker father Suman Ghosh a few years ago in response to his ‘please-don’t-grow-up’ request. That precisely is the lesson ...

For Tapan, money was never the motivation or a deterrent. The opportunity to work on a Tagore story was his primary inspiration. Since his childhood, Tagore had been a singular source of sustenance ...

`Kabuliwala`- the timeless tale of Rahmat is a story of a middle-aged Afghan man, whose heart overflows with fatherly love for a little girl-Mini, in the bustling city of Kolkata set in the year of ...

Generations of Indian schoolkids have read Kabuliwala — the tale of an Afghan migrant in India. The story remains timely today with mistreatment of migrants, especially Muslims, on the rise. A story ...