Writer, historian Patrick French dies after battle with cancer

Award-winning British author, historian and academic Patrick French, best known for his biography of VS Naipaul, The World Is What It Is, and India: A Portrait, died in London on Thursday after a......

Why Canada wants immigrants to face language test

Starting June 26 this year, Canada made it compulsory for all skilled immigrant applicants to take an English or French language test.Countering the protests against the new immigration rule, Doug......

Harold Pinter wins Literature Nobel

British playwright Harold Pinter, whose juxtaposition of the brutal and the banal dubbed an adjective that bears his name, won the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday.The Swedish Academy said......

#StopHindiImposition: TN opposes Centre's 3-language policy

Parties in Tamil Nadu including the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam on Saturday strongly opposed the three language formula's continuation with add-on features proposed in the draft National Education......

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......

Seen these FANTASTIC films?

The New York Film Festival served an amazing plate of films.Aseem Chhabra picks the best ones. It has been the strangest year of our lives, but films have been important in keeping us sane. And......

Why we admire Satyajit Ray so much

To his uninformed detractors -- including the late Indian actress Nargis Dutt -- filmmaker Satyajit Ray was a tireless chronicler of Indian poverty whose Pather Panchali captured the attention of......