Saturday 21 November '09
It’s sort of easy to sit back, condense the contents of middle-school geography books and dramatic newspaper headlines and imagine that bit of our country in our heads.Sunday 22 November '09
Ruskin Bond on his two new books, writing for Vishal Bhardwaj’s next and being ‘too old’ to star opposite Priyanka ChopraThursday
19 November '09There’s something about black and white photographs that holds you back from judging their artistic depth.Thursday
19 November '09When there’s a deadline biting at your heels and stomach crying out for a steaming cup of cappuccino, it’s a little difficult to find inspiration in words.Wednesday
18 November '09Like the rest of us wanted to be Miss India or Shah Rukh Khan when school was shoving decimal divisions down our throats, Tony Lee wanted to be a Ninja.Wednesday
18 November '09It’s not everyday that you get to sit across the same table as someone whose books were a part of your school curriculum.Tuesday
17 November '09At a time when the world’s most powerful country has a bi-racial president and Apartheid is a term relegated to the dictionary of complicated, historical practices in public memory, Anthony Fabian made Skin.Monday
16 November '09For all the stardust that we associate with the Kodak Theatre and the golden lady, there’s something very pompous, very misleading, and to sum up, very American about the Oscars.Monday
9 November '09Based on a true story, a Kolkata Film Festival entry show show a greater part of Bengal still dwells in the dark agesThursday
12 November '09Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee at the very outset had made it clear that the 15th Kolkata Film Festival will be a lukewarm affair due to the budget cut.Tuesday
10 November '09Long before, ‘cinema’ maintained a discernible distance from the broader ambit of ‘movies’, and ‘world cinema’ enthusiasts in the city raised a toast to the convoluted, transgressive workings of human emotions, Tagore wrote Shyama.Wednesday
4 November '09He 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 '09A 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.
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