Sreelekha Mitra has won the Best Actress award for ‘Once Upon a Time in Calcutta’, amid top honours at this year’s New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) that celebrated India...

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Could there possibly be an upside to the long, stressful periods of isolation that so many people have endured during the pandemic lockdown of 2020? When we emerge, will we see the world in a new way?...

A streak of optimism runs through the George Harrison-composed song Here Comes The Sun. And it took 50 years for the song to receive a video, which it did a few days ago to mark the 50th anniversary o...

The Beatles were the most creative, distinctive and revolutionary force when it comes to the form of pop music and were integral in its evolution into an art form. In a career spanning just a few year...