Tear gas, lathicharge as WB cops stop BJP march to Mamata's office

Parts of Kolkata and adjoining Howrah resembled a battle zone on Thursday as Bharatiya Janata Party workers and supporters clashed with police, hurling stones and blocking roads with burning tyres,......

Can't say Cow, Gujarat, Hindutva: Censor Board wants Amartya Sen beeped in film

A documentary on Amartya Sen has been stalled by the Censor Board with its film maker Suman Ghosh being told to mute words like 'cow', 'Gujarat' and 'Hindutva' uttered by the Nobel Laureate in the......

'I had no right to teach students who I deserted'

'It's the least I could do,' says Professor Soumitra Basu, head of the Philosophy department at Jadavpur University, who resigned to protest against the police violence last week. Professor......

Saying goodbye to the ones we lost in 2020

We have lost so many extraordinary talents this year. Subhash K Jha remembers the dear departed.   Irrfan Khan Photograph: Kind courtesy Irrfan Khan/Facebook Irrfan lost the battle to cancer......

2020's 12 Lessons from Bollywood

Every year has its ups and downs. But pandemic-ridden 2020 was so hopeless and horrid, many would like to erase it altogether from the calendar if not memory. Bollywood couldn't escape its wrath......

10 roles that proved Soumitra Chatterjee's versatility

This is an alternate list of 10 screen roles that saw Soumitra Chatterjee, a paragon of gentility, venture beyond his comfort zone and deliver masterclasses of subtlety and depth, lists Saibal......

The Legend is dead, his work lives on

IMAGE: Soumitra Chatterjee and Tushar Bandyopadhya in Satyajit Ray's Apur Sansar, He was the actor who epitomised the best of world cinema, transcending the boundaries of country, state and......

Parimarjan Negi wins Nat. sub-junior chess

India's youngest International Master-norm holder Parimarjan Negi of Delhi clinched an all-important victory against overnight sole leader K Vijay Keerthi in the crucial ninth and final round to......