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Sudipta Datta

An extraordinary man

In the 80s, when Habib Tanvir brought Charandas Chor to Calcutta, the queues for tickets snaked miles long.

Sans heart & soul

Shoes of the Dead has too many characters and most are not fully explored, which makes the novel suffer, but…

Kabul’s labour of love

Shakespeare in Kabul gives a vivid account of how Love’s Labour?s Lost?a ?bold celebration of a new Afghanistan??was brought to…

A complex love triangle

Towards the end of Indumati Gunaji?s incredible life, she handed her notes, letters and ?memories? to her daughter Laxmi with…

An indulgent, complex debut

Taiye Selasi?s Ghana Must Go comes highly recommended. From Toni Morrison to Salman Rushdie to Penelope Lively?they were all impressed…

Violence and the novel

Why does community based on commonly understood principles of love, familiarity, trust, and shelter finally extinguishes its own

Behind the evil faces

Mogambo. Gabbar. Dr Dang. Kancha Cheena: through the decades, Bollywood?s bad men have captured popular imagination.

Mirror to a city?s past

A friend visiting London in pre-Olympic days and before it was spruced up gasped that the city over Thames reminded…

The Calcutta chromosome

After spending three decades as a boxing correspondent and on the sports desk of The Times, London, retirement from writing…

The Dream Maker

Five decades and 50 films later, Yash Chopra will be remembered for reinventing romance on celluloid, for the exotic locales…

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