The 1943 famine in Bengal meant little or nothing to generations in Britain. This special event in Manchester might change that. The author spoke to some of those involved ...

Khayyam, who was born in Bangladesh, was interested in the Bengal famine. What followed was extensive study and discussion and the end result was a dance production called Ghost Ships.

Even from the back, Patti Smith was unmistakably Patti Smith. Standing on a downtown-Manhattan sidewalk on a late-summer ...