Muriel Spark, who would have turned 103 this month, was no stranger to rumours, half-truths, outright lies and other kinds of falsehood. Indeed, they swirled around her as they do around so many autho...

To this reviewer’s mind, a crucial difference between theatre in Calcutta and that in the suburbs is that theatre in the city neither is nor can ever be as thoroughly entrenched in the matrix of com...

The future of Bhobishyoter Bhoot is still uncertain.Anik Dutta’s film was not screened in the city on Saturday, a day after the Supreme Court directed the state to ensure unhindered screening of the...

And so we are. Indeed. Where else would we be? These are our fences. We made them. But we choose not to see them. At the best of times. At the worst of times. Our fences are what we choose not to see....

Once a daily feature in many national dailies and those published in the vernacular varieties as well, cartoons took a critical look at contemporary social and political mores, using humour either to ...

Or, translated from Punglish, whatever’s the matter, birds? The answer, traditionally, in Engjabi, used to be: Sirdie,Sirdie,SeagullHai.But never mind, those were the days. Days when we used to...

Are you ready for it folks? Excited? Just can’t wait, isn’t it? Tossing and turning in sleep and like coked-out awake, aren’t you? Like totally GobsmackedBazoookaBoomed about it and totes tickli...

There’s a teetar caught in the dogfight which is not really a fight between dogs. Wonder why they call it a dogfight when there are no dogs involved at all. Perhaps another way of giving a dog a bad...

Sir — Narendra Modi has said that those mocking the Vande Bharat Express should be “punished”. India’s first semi-high-speed train developed technical problems during its return journey from V...

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