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Pritish Nandy: What An Editor!

Hugely creative with a very evolved aesthetic sense, he made the Illustrated Weekly of India every young reporter's dream. Payal Singh Mohanka remembers Pritish Nandy who passed into the ages on......

PHOTOS: Kolkata's iconic Victoria Memorial gets a major makeover

Kolkata's iconic monument Victoria Memorial Hall is being given a makeover and will soon turn into an open-space cultural centre besides allowing access to hidden parts of the iconic marble......

Rushdie lying, say book fair, literature meet organisers

Organisers of Kolkata Literary Meet and Kolkata Book Fair have denied British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie's statement on Friday that he was invited to be a part of the literary carnival and said......

Salman Rushdie's visit to Kolkata cancelled

Controversial author Salman Rushdie's visit to Kolkata to promote Deepa Mehta's film Midnight's Children, based on his novel, has been cancelled due to security issues. A source close to the film......

Resolutions against CAA political gesture: Tharoor

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said that bringing in resolutions against the Citizenship Amendment Act is more of a "political gesture" by the states as they hardly have any role in granting......

Amartya Sen sets the agenda for Left parties

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Sunday urged the Left parties to raise the issue of sanitation and other basic needs of the poorest of the poor, apart from the issues of food security and LPG price......

'Rituparno Ghosh was extremely lonely'

Former journalist and event manager Yajnaseni Chakraborty pays tribute to talented Bengali director Rituparno Ghosh, who passed away this morning, and remembers the child in him, who would......

'Soumitra Chatterjee is bigger than a Ray actor'

'He never went to the Bombay industry.' IMAGE: Soumitra Chatterjee and Madhabi Mukherjee in Satyajit Ray's classic Charulata. There is a story Soumitra Chatterjee likes to tell. In the......

'We are a beautifully chaotic people'

'I wish there was a little chaos there and I wish there was a little discipline here.'Lion actress Tannishtha Chatterjee on Bollywood and Hollywood. Tannishtha Chatterjee is a part of the hugely......

Hail The President!

There's funny-funny. And there's sharp wit. The President Is Coming is a delightful combination of both. Sometime in 2006, President George Bush visited India to, most memorably, forge nuclear......

'Everyday was a nightmare on the sets of Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro'

'Nobody laughed during the shooting. There were fights, swearing and what not. Tempers were high but the unit and the actors stayed on and, finally, the film was made.' 'But it was like riding a......

'One-state, one-vote' may dilute standard of Ranji: Gavaskar

'Not every county plays county cricket in England and not every state plays shield cricket in Australia' Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar said he feared that the Supreme Court-appointed Justice......

It was tough managing Saina, Sindhu together: Gopichand

'I told Sindhu: 'Saina is going to be back. But it doesn't mean I am out of your time. You both will have your time. How I manage is my problem. You just tell me what you need and it will be......

Kangaroos, desis and cricket in New York

First loves tend to linger on the backyard of memory, more so when they haven't ended on a shrill, bitter, clawing note. And time and time again, one is compelled to return to that warm glow of......

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