A Play in Junglemahal

Sunday 6 May '12

A small theatre movement emerges in the Naxal stronghold of Borotolpada.

Comic spoofs of old detectives create new wave on web

Thursday 26 April '12

While parodying might be not the preferred flavor of the season, a satirical spin off on Bengal''s favourite detectives is creating ripples in the world of web-comics.

Giving hate a Dam

Sunday 22 April '12

Paoli Dam is getting her head around Bollywood.

Giving Hate a Dam

Sunday 22 April '12

Paoli Dam is getting her head around Bollywood.

Giving Hate A Dam

Sunday 22 April '12

Paoli Dam is getting her head around Bollywood. Or so says her wispy laughter cleverly drawn over blanks, her crisply-worded answers with little room for slips and smiles, and her conversational inter...

'Real frustration' vs Mamata Banerjee trends on virtual world

Thursday 19 April '12

Users of social networking sites, undeterred by the threats, have criticised Mamata without mincing words or images.

Trending on virtual world, a 'real frustration'' against CM

Thursday 19 April '12

West Bengal chief minister''s image managers may have summoned the Crime Investigation Department to rout the threat of caricaturing from its roots and trace the IP address from which cartoons depicti...

Bengal''s Bollywood Number

Sunday 15 April '12

In 100% Love, a recent Bengali potboiler which was a huge hit, actor Jeet prances about in his distressed denims, with a cluster of blondes in myriad hot pants for company, to the song It''s a 100 per...

'Hindi films never really excited me''

Sunday 8 April '12

Chatterjee's forte has been his repertoire of characters he has played Ray's popular detective Feluda with as much ease as he has displayed in his portrayal of the swashbuckling villain in Tapan Sinh...

Breaking biases on stage

Sunday 1 April '12

Jhalapala, apart from being one of the finest plays written by Sukumar Ray for his 'Nonsense Club'', is also a word often used by the unfriendly neighbourhood uncle to describe the din of para childre...

Dancing in the dark

Sunday 1 April '12

In the bylanes of Kolkata, in the suburbs of Mumbai and the badlands of north India, dancers are dancing. They work in unglamorous settings and pander to unruly crowds in their attempt to keep dying t...

The Power of One

Sunday 4 March '12

What is it to be a single woman in the small town or sleepy village? The struggle is similar fending off social pressure and stifling moral codes just more intense. Five women tell us how they found...

Kolkata Blues

Sunday 19 February '12

Didi is on a drive to re-paint the city.

Centre sits on relief scheme for rape victims

Saturday 18 February '12

Amid a raging debate over the alleged Park Street rape, the Centre continues to sit on a scheme developed by the National Commission of Women to grant compensation to rape victims.

'Visva-Bharati wanted to stop Nobel Chor''

Wednesday 15 February '12

Nobel Chor, says director Suman Ghosh, is his "homage to Rabindranath Tagore", but the film has its share of risks.

Chetan Bhagat Gets candid

Sunday 5 February '12

Stargazers, scribes look to decode the celebrated author.

Kolkata does a Jaipur, cancels Taslima Nasrin's book launch

Wednesday 1 February '12

Bengal has banned her travel in state; vocal about her cause when in Oppn, Trinamool now mum.

Kolkata fest to stay clear of 'politics''

Thursday 26 January '12

Author Sunil Gangopadhyay says that it is unfortunate that politics took precedence at the JLF and literature took a backseat.

Defiant and proud

Sunday 8 January '12

Sangita Bauri blinks impatiently at the flurry of camera flashes that greet her in the banquet hall of a city five star.

After film fest, poriborton in book fair

Saturday 7 January '12

Roughly a month after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee bubble-wrapped the Kolkata Film Festival and handed it over to the section of Tollywood, which had sided with her during her election campaign, she...

Scrolls of traditions

Sunday 1 January '12

Moyna Chitrakar''s artwork depicting Sita''s plight in Ramayana has received worldwide appreciation.

smart street

Sunday 25 December '11

Right in the heart of Park Street stands the district grand lodge of West Bengal chapter of Freemasons, whose headquarters moved to the street in 1911.

Those Were the Days, My Friend

Sunday 25 December '11

A sliver of light breaks the monotony of darkness, throwing into focus the bright purple panels of the door, and the silhouette of wires springing out of electric boards somewhere in the background.

Film industry wants Mamata to focus right in revamp shot

Monday 19 December '11

When Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee laid the foundation stone for revamping the Technician''s Studio at the cost of Rs 18 crore earlier this week, the mood in the Tollywood was uplifting.

Tripura family sold land to pay his hospital fees, now they can''t find him

Sunday 11 December '11

Over thirty-six hours after the fire, Paritosh Das, 24, is yet to trace his brother, Santosh Das, 26.