Culture

Forty years after Mahesh Bhatt immortalised Parveen Babi’s fragile mental state on celluloid, he’s still at it. In one way or the other, the Bhatts and extended family like nephew Mohit Su...

Prajesh Nandy of Girish Chandra Dey and Nakur Chandra Nandy, the chain of shops known for their nolen gur sweets in winter, prefers nolen gur to patali gur. “You cannot make patali without addin...

The walls of the 19th century Metcalfe Hall of central Calcutta had a river streaming across them. Streaming past heavily annotated panels, olden maps, visuals of queens, nawabs, company officials, fl...

“Rahane would have been the ideal choice but unfortunately his form is an issue. Sharma will be a temporary solution since he is 34. So someone younger must be lingering in the minds of the sele...

It was a ritual for my friends and I, along with our families, to drive to Azad Hind Dhaba on the Kona Expressway on a cold January morning. The ride used to be fun with at least one tea break at any ...

There was a time when there were many instrumental bands in Calcutta. Unfortunately, that’s no longer the case. Hang on, there’s hope — Beat Blasters, one of the most successful inst...

Tell us about the video…. Kartik: It is about what we all have to go through, chasing success and reaching somewhere. There are these rules that people live by… which are created by us ...

During the pandemic, plenty of musicians have unveiled their quieter, scaled-down, more reflective sides. Elvis Costello, typically, had other ideas. His 2020 album, Hey Clockface, was a high-contras...

Book name: About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks Author: By David Rooney, Publisher, Price: W.W. Norton, $28.95 My flatmate bought an Apple watch — the latest in the evolutio...

Book name: Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization Author: By Edward Slingerland, Publisher, Price: Little, Brown Spark, $14.99 Why do we drink? Despite its potential for...