D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! Netflix has picked up a docuseries titled D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! from Fulwell 73 Productions that will shed some light, and maybe some fresh evidence, on one of his...

The middle-aged Basu was introduced as an unmarried man, but with the Kanta series, Sanyal introduces some modifications to his character and he’s shown to be married, with a daughter. Basu is a...

Have you read any recent contemporary fiction that you liked? I must tell you that I have ended up not reading any fiction in the last one year, primarily because I have had my hands full with this b...

Dustin and Co. using bedsheets to forge a rope and pull in the gang stuck in the Upside Down is a direct nod to a similar moment in Poltergeist where a similar ‘rope’ is used to connect th...

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...