Somnath Chatterjee: Distinguished Parliamentarian who wore many hats

The 89-year-old leader was expelled by the CPI-M after he refused to step down from his position as Speaker holding that the post is above any party politics. IMAGE: Then President APJ Abdul Kalam......

Protests Hit Retail Ahead of Durga Puja

West Bengal is home to 43,000 Durga Pujas, and the business around it is a major economic driver. IMAGE: People perform a street play during a protest condemning the rape and murder of a trainee......

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee passes away

Communist veteran and former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee passed away at a private hospital in Kolkata on Monday following multiple organ failure. He was 89. IMAGE: The former Speaker had......

'I Don't Know What I Am Going To Do'

The political heat in West Bengal has been giving the rising mercury levels serious competition since the high court order. IMAGE: Upper Primary (2016) job aspirants protest in Kolkata on......

Basu Chatterjee was the Master of Hope

'I always felt that Basu Chatterjee was a kind, gentle, man who truly believed that in directing films like Chhoti Si Baat, he was impacting our lives,' remembers Aseem Chhabra.'He seemed to be on......

The musical brilliance of Basu Chatterjee

'Songs are a commercial compromise.''I had to invent tricks to fit songs into my films.' IMAGE: Jaya Bachchan and Anil Dhawan in the song Yeh Jeevan Hai from Basu Chatterjee's Piya Ka Ghar. Basu......

The Wonderful Films of Basu Chatterjee

'Basuda welcomed viewers into a world that was instantly familiar and comfortable,' observes Sukanya Verma. Basu Chatterjee didn't just make movies for us. He made movies about us. I saw life in......

Classic revisited: Basu Chatterjee's 1982 sex comedy, Shaukeen

In our special series re-visiting great Hindi film classics, we look back at Ashok Kumar, Utpal Dutt and A K Hangal starrer Shaukeen (1982). Of all the moments in The Lunchbox that stayed with me......

When 16 people died during a Kolkata derby in 1980

IMAGE: In what was a dark day for Indian football, on August 16, 1980, 16 people were killed in a stampede and riot inside the Eden Gardens during a Mohun Bagan and East Bengal during a Calcutta......