Monday 27 April '09
When it comes to food like they made at ‘home’, Bengalis and several others are all for the eateries dotting Chittaranjan Park.Friday 24 April '09
When Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt will be in Kolkata on April 26 in his new role as the Samajwadi Party general secretary to campaign for his candidate...Tuesday
21 April '09Bengali, the language and its literary possibilities, is sadly lost on several of the clan which is its namesake.Tuesday
21 April '09The posto-meets-pizza generation of Bengalis that is ours, lives on a music of its own. And if the likes of Neel Dutt have their way, it would soon be on our lips too.Saturday
18 April '09Let’s get this straight. Longing, especially for picture perfect bits reclaimed as memories from a grey-ish past, makes fools out of the smartest of men. But then again...Friday
17 April '09Souk, at the Taj Bengal, is comfortably nestled amid an air of silky elegance. Its interiors, done up in subtle shades of turquoise and cream...Tuesday
14 April '09When a veteran theatre personality calls ‘pochishe boishakh’ a cultural showpiece for a clan of plastic Bengalis neck deep in colonial hangover, it doesn’t take a genius to understand why.Tuesday
14 April '09Filmmaker Anindita Sarbadhicari’s latest offering Alor Nishana, which endorses the state’s approach towards industrialisation, could well be a part of election campaign of the Left Front government, which is facing opposition on the issue.Friday
10 April '09When Kamal Haasan plays God on screen, it’s not all that difficult to believe him.Wednesday
8 April '09Not long before Harry Potter cast the most longstanding spell ever on bibliophiles and bibliophobes alike, children usually shuttled between St Claire’s and Nancy Drew or Wodehouse and Agatha Christie.Tuesday
7 April '09There are fashion shows — leggy models, groovy music, stunning showstoppers et al. And then there are Rohit Bal shows.Tuesday
31 March '09In the world that art in the city has carefully cultivated around itself, pata chitras might well be considered misfits.Thursday
26 March '09As the heat turns days into nightmares, and the polls take over the television, a book possibly remains as the only way to survive afternoons to come.Tuesday
24 March '09Between Raigunge and Ralph Lauren lies the difference of a world.Thursday
19 March '09A Match Point DVD, a copy of Hungry Tide, the new Spanish eatery, a drink with the best friend, coffee with the cute Facebook girl…Monday
16 March '09As patachitra artists, like several other traditional craftsmen, are struggling against the tide of sleek, urban graphic art, the chitrakars of Noya village in Midnapore district have become models in the art of survival.Saturday
14 March '09When was the last time you wanted to hold ABCD from XYZ movie by his collars and shake him up till he saw sense? When was the last time you couldn’t hate a character in a film...Friday
13 March '09Thirty-seven years back, there were very few catwalks or cricket pitches awaiting women when they stepped out of their homes in India.Monday
9 March '09What would you do when moderately good-looking, insipid, not too young, awfully irritating people meet over a drink and belch out secrets that are blander than they are probably? You yawn and retire for the day.Friday
6 March '09As we hurtle down the potholed footpaths along the High Court to work, or dodge a deliberately careless army of buses, cycles, and cars on the College Street to get to the Coffee House, there’s usually a curse or two on our minds.Wednesday
4 March '09Spread over 8.5 acres of land and developed over 12 years, one expected Shilpagram in Surul area of Santiniketan would turn out to be a crafts and culture hub as promised.Wednesday
11 February '09It’s been a while, since film promotions grew out of scratchily put together trailers of the hero’s choicest kicks, the heroine’s best jhatkas, and the villain’s scariest, bloodiest face.Saturday
31 January '09Despite a rivetting Farhan Akhtar, despite an intense Konkona Sen Sharma, despite Bollywood’s best cameo profile ever...Friday
30 January '09He calls his band the Really Terrible Orchestra, and one of his several books is called The Unbearable Lightness of Scones.Saturday
17 January '09If you have sliced baddies in your mind Lara Croft style while clipping your nails or humoured yourself as Bruce Lee while elbowing your way into a public bus, Nikhil Advani’s Chandni Chowk to China is some inspiration.
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