This February, a Bengali film titled Abar Bochhor Koori Pore had released at the theatres. It told us the story of four friends from school who were now estranged because of the pressures of life. Aft...

Ali Abbas Zafar’s Jogi could have raised questions about political challenges that are still relevant, but it has its heart in the right place. The two-hour film is a fictional retelling of the ...

On the autopsy table of the ‘mora-kata ghar’ in Siliguri, lies the body of a teenage schoolgirl: the poison she’d taken ended both her own life and that of the foetus inside her. Her...

Bimal Kundu’s artistic journey began in North Calcutta, his sensibilities shaped by Kumartuli’s clay sculptures and his schooling at the Government Art College. His semi-realistic style ma...

The directors pay tribute to cinema as their ambitious multiverse project is a nod to several movies. Different lenses and aspect ratios have been used to define the various alternate universes in Eve...

Books: The Candy House Author: Jennifer Egan Publisher: Little, Brown Price: Rs. 1,599 The Candy House explores a world where technology enables humans to upload and share their consciousness...

Books: Translating Myself And Others Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Publisher: Princeton Price: $21.95 As a novelist, Jhumpa Lahiri has made a brave, perhaps eccentric, decision. The author of two novels a...

Books: Letter To A Stranger: Essays To The Ones Who Haunt Us Editor: Colleen Kinder Publisher: Algonquin Price: $19.95  “Strangers in the night/ Exchanging glances Wandering in the nig...

Books: Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came To America Author: Hugh Eakin Publisher: Crown Price: $32.99   Contrary to what the title suggests, Pablo Picasso plays only a marginal ro...

Shahidul Alam (born 1955) is widely known as a photographer and human rights activist born in Dhaka who has held exhibitions with such provocative content that the Bangladesh government felt compelled...