Wednesday 4 November '09
He may be a man besieged nowadays, but the connoisseur in him has not given up. Today, even as south Bengal was caught in a spiral of violence, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was busy defending the 15th Kolkata Film Festival...Sunday 1 November '09
A fairy tale told through Gond paintings. A grammar book in Warli style. Books illustrated by tribal artists show us a new way of looking at a familiar worldTuesday
27 October '09It wasn’t just language that lay heavily between Joydeb Chitrakar and his brand new scroll-book Tsunami. It was luck that had stood between Chitrakar...Saturday
24 October '09Once upon a time, when Dad’s mobile phone was just an inch shorter than a baseball bat and television didn’t know who/what Rakhi Sawant was, IT professionals were made out to be divine creatures.Monday
19 October '09It’s a sight that you would usually associate with a ration shop on an average day. Or a roadside TV shop full of cricket buffs on certain days.Wednesday
14 October '09It’s been quite a while since independent bands in the country graduated from being just cool boyfriend material to serious investment.Sunday
11 October '09It’s difficult to be born an agnostic in a middle-class Bengali family in Kolkata. Even more difficult to turn into one early in life unless something earth shattering has struck your childhood.Saturday
10 October '09Poran Jai Joliya Re sure had it’s moments under and away from the sun here, but it failed to blaze a trail to far off Boston where graduate school student Gourab De has just finished watching Antaheen on his laptop.Thursday
1 October '09As the blinding flashbulbs retire for the night and the flawless mask of shine and glitter comes off with a drop of astringent, Bidita Bag returns to a reality not half as pretty as the one concocted on the ramp.Saturday
26 September '09Standing outside the Kankurgachi Swapnar Bagan pandal with three other friends, 20-year-old Chintu Gupta looks just another youth decked up in his puja finery — denims of the latest cut and a bright yellow tee.Friday
18 September '09Between dawn and day, last night’s weary dreams and morning’s impatient wait lies a tortured stretch of silence — one throbbing with anticipation...Friday
18 September '09Between dawn and day, last night’s weary dreams and morning’s impatient wait lies a tortured stretch of silence — one throbbing with anticipation...Wednesday
16 September '09While we were being brought up in a carefully cultivated English wilderness picking daffodils and chasing the rain away, Grandma tried to ensure that Ramgorurer Chhana did not pale in the British glamour of Humpty Dumpty.Monday
14 September '09If you thought models were impossibly tall pancake and bronzer wonders, it’s time for a reality check.Sunday
6 September '09Elephant dung, banana fibre, old wine bottles, newspapers and shredded prints can help make your home get chicMonday
31 August '09When Bombay Dost was launched in 1990, its readers couldn’t afford the comforts of being discreet, courtesy the internet.Friday
28 August '09A few decades back, when Amol Palekar was giving the bungling faceless man a little more than just his share of ordinariness on screen, he knew that his posters wouldn’t be up on bedroom walls and he wouldn’t wake up to a legion of screaming fans.Thursday
27 August '09With the global economic downturn, it would be strange if the Durga Pujas remain unaffected by it. But it seems that the financial crunch has only hit the small para clubs rather than the big and famous ones, which are not thinking of slashing their budgets.Monday
24 August '09At 21, Deen is not your average textbook romantic. His disapproval of the circuitous tracks that establishments...Friday
21 August '09For a fourteen-year-old, Ayesha Kapoor sounds surprisingly calm. Her voice doesn’t betray the excitement of a teenager who is just a week away from the release of her second film.Tuesday
18 August '09While caffeine and addiction have become synonymous for a generation that lives out their days huddled in brightly-lit coffee shops, it’s a sip of the milky Indian chai that keeps our big, fat country going.Saturday
15 August '09What happened every time Dhen Te Na burst on your television screen? You blinked, squinted, blinked again and obstinately fought the cunning red glow to tell man from woman, blue from black, light from dark.Friday
14 August '09Piyush Jha’s Sikandar could be located anywhere —here, in some other country, some other continent also. But he chose Kashmir.Tuesday
11 August '09Fifteen years ago Someplace Else was all about shimmer, stilettos and the turntable. Its first steps towards live music-dom from a teenybopper’s disco-dream-come true, was peppered with some apprehension alright.Monday
10 August '09Music World on Park Street is abuzz with a flurry of activities. Cursing camera men, harried shop attendants, and mobile phone-happy aunties crane their necks...
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