Hope Behind Bars: Notes From Indian Prisons Edited by: Sanjoy Hazarika and Madhurima Dhanuka Publisher: Pan Macmillan Price: Rs 599 Both as an experience and subject, incarceration, generally spe...

Usual faces  Sir — Bengali literature has plenty of sleuths. But this fascination is not restricted to books. Fans can be just as excited to know who will be the face of their favourite li...

In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition by Aanchal Malhotra (HarperCollins India) Oral historian Aanchal Malhotra’s 2017 book Remnants of Separation was applauded for its ...

Innies and outies Employees of a certain floor at Lumon Industries are made to undergo a severance process, a procedure that separates their memories of their time at office from their memories of ev...

When I watched the first two seasons of Breaking Bad, I thought video had found in serialized shows a form to match the long immersions of the novel. There is something about the relative shortne...

A retired diplomat who writes detective stories has woven his latest against the backdrop of Kolkata. The two main characters are a retired Somali ambassador, waiting to return home, and a woman priv...

Mitra’s novels like Dhanapatir Char (Penguin Books is publishing a translation soon), Momenshahi Upakhyan or Ashwacharita often come to be associated with magic realism. But the author says it&r...

Bengali author Amar Mitra has been conferred the prestigious 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction. A list of 20 authors, who have been awarded the coveted prize, was announced on Monday. Mitra&rsqu...

RUN ON The last one on the list is Run On, a spring flick that offers you all the elements that exist in all your favorite light K-dramas. Struggling characters who are striving to make it big in th...

Director: Lakshya Raj Anand Cast: John Abraham, Jacqueline Fernandez, Rakul Preet Singh, Prakash Raj, Rajit Kapur, Ratna Pathak Shah Running time: 123 minutes  ...