As a result of his homework, and in the process of trying to add minute details to his portrayal, Tota comes across a bit self- conscious in a few scenes. And it’s natural. I hope with more seas...

Q1. What kind of painting is this cat with fish on the right? Kalighat painting Q2. Who in the Mahabharata was also known as Matsyagandha? Satyavati, great-grandmother of the Pandava and Kaurava prin...

The year, 2020, has actually been a vintage year for books, among them is Marina Wheeler’s The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab. She has nothing to say about her former h...

A childhood “nostalgia and the deja vu feeling” of being around this man called Pradosh Chandra Mitter is here. Team Feluda Pherot — director Srijit Mukherji, Tota Roy Choudhury (Fel...

Why have Diego Romero as DoP and what did he bring to the vision of the story? Diego and some of his friends met me in Madrid after watching a retrospective of my films at Madrid Intl Film Festival. ...

Great Yarmouth Heritage Walks: The walks on this page are on diverse subjects like road names, history, or a stroll along the seafront, and are all centred around the resort town of England’s Gr...

The starting point of the camel safari at Sam outside Jaisalmer could easily have been the space immediately outside the gates of any primary school in Calcutta at the end of the last school day befor...

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Sir — It is not everyday that a news in the entertainment section of the newspaper alarms people. Recently, I read that popular medical dramas like Grey’s Anatomy are going to re...

The shadows cast by the Twilight Men get deeper as we turn the pages of Aro Ak Dojon. We meet Batikbabu — furtive, eccentric, the laughing stock of gloomy, rainy Darjeeling. He has psychic ...