Friday 30 January '09
He calls his band the Really Terrible Orchestra, and one of his several books is called The Unbearable Lightness of Scones.Saturday 17 January '09
If 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.Friday
16 January '09While Kolkatans do not exactly blush talking about gay and lesbian rights issues, the story takes a different dimension when one moves beyond the state capital.Saturday
10 January '09Idiosyncrasies — when handled with the kind of humour that doesn’t overwhelm you, tickles everyday profanities into living, crazy...Thursday
8 January '09Right after saas bahus spread out their kitchenware all over the airwaves, creative heads decided they’ve had had enough of colourful girl-talk.Thursday
1 January '09The best New Year gifts, once upon a time, used to be the monopoly of maashis and jethus, whose usual homecoming paraphernalia wouldn’t ever be complete without boxes of ‘foreign chocolates’.Friday
26 December '08How do handbags, snaps from Ladakh and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan come together? If you’re shuffling through all the weird music videos in your mind, hold on.Friday
26 December '08If images of Christmas in Kolkata ever comes to mind, it is the strings of lights in each neighbourhood shop...Monday
22 December '08In 1930, democracy sounded distant. Not because, it was a worn-out, ill-lived trophy term in the Indian constitution, like it is today. But because it could be a reality that had the power to change what a million people woke up to every morning, forever.Saturday
20 December '08Rarely does a film make you wish away the suave-cute-bumbling-uber-smart-at-the-same-time hero for something completely goofy and not quite human...Thursday
18 December '08A sneer, a guffaw, or a gasp is probably what you would be greeted with, if you ask a random Kolkata youngster about the religious significance of the rudraksha necklace.Saturday
13 December '08There’s something about Feluda. Something that makes us very forgiving, very proud and a little self righteous also about most things about him.Friday
12 December '08‘I have never felt unsafe in an Indian city, including Mumbai, despite its traumatic past. It may have something to do with our democracy — as citizens...Thursday
11 December '08A steaming cup of coffee, a crisp winter evening and a slim volume of T S Eliot’s caustic rambling for some.Wednesday
10 December '08After the pesky cell-phone made a quiet entry into Feluda’s world of grey matter uncluttered by snazzy gizmos, cynics probably spent a chuckle or two on how Mr Mitter would respond to personal loan offers.Monday
8 December '08A day before the city got glimpses of Jenny Pinto’s magic, the floor of a city studio is strewn with interesting forms in shades of ivory, cream and ochre.Saturday
6 December '08Comedies, when they make their way out of the kitschy psychedelic big belly of Bollywood, either pass out on screen like their viewers in the theatre...Thursday
4 December '08Maybe some life next, three hundred castles, snatches of narcissistic starlight and lissome glasses of bubbly, could be all yours the same night.Wednesday
3 December '08Even before we woke up to our scars, and went back to minding our business amid reassuring anonymity, a certain Ram Gopal Varma landed in a soup for being everything that is wrong with this country.Monday
1 December '08I am not even an agnostic, I am an atheist, Sabyasachi Mukherjee smiles, explaining the profusion of black in his Bridal Sutra collection.Saturday
29 November '08For a generation of faceless, ordinary mortals, who live out their lives biting dust and then wallowing in it, Dibaker Bannerji’s Khosla Ka Ghosla...Thursday
27 November '08For the iPOD savvy, obsessive hip hopper that an upwardly mobile Indian youngster has turned into today, Anoushka Shankar was a myth-buster of sorts.Saturday
22 November '08He hams, hams some more, yells at times, throws glasses here and there, swings his hips awkwardly, not even wishing he could dance.Saturday
22 November '08All through the 60 years of his life, Kolkata was quite different from many other places Sonawala Mir had seen on television.Friday
21 November '08Divya Bose (name changed on request) had everything going for her. Almost. A plush job with an MNC, a happening bunch of friends, a seemingly perfect home.
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