In the 80s, when Habib Tanvir brought Charandas Chor to Calcutta, the queues for tickets snaked miles long.
In the 80s, when Habib Tanvir brought Charandas Chor to Calcutta, the queues for tickets snaked miles long.
Shoes of the Dead has too many characters and most are not fully explored, which makes the novel suffer, but…
The Black Coat is a bone-chilling retelling of the birth of Bangladesh and the famine that followed
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 great historian guides us through ?an era of history that has lost its bearings?
Khaled Hosseini?s third novel is eminently readable and perhaps his most ambitious Afghanistan story
Sachin Dev Burman, or SD as he was called, travelled from the Ganga (Calcutta) to the Arabian Sea (Bombay) in…
Towards the end of Indumati Gunaji?s incredible life, she handed her notes, letters and ?memories? to her daughter Laxmi with…
Taiye Selasi?s Ghana Must Go comes highly recommended. From Toni Morrison to Salman Rushdie to Penelope Lively?they were all impressed…
Why does community based on commonly understood principles of love, familiarity, trust, and shelter finally extinguishes its own
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In the 2011 film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, when the three male characters of Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar and Abhay…
A friend visiting London in pre-Olympic days and before it was spruced up gasped that the city over Thames reminded…
If one were to revisit Amit Chaudhuri?s novels set in Calcutta, especially A Strange and Sublime Address and Freedom Song,…
After spending three decades as a boxing correspondent and on the sports desk of The Times, London, retirement from writing…
Promoting Jab Tak Hai Jaan, which is set for a Diwali release, Shah Rukh Khan was seen in the classic…
Five decades and 50 films later, Yash Chopra will be remembered for reinventing romance on celluloid, for the exotic locales…
With set-top boxes yet to be installed in half of the cable homes in the four metros, and state governments…