Mamata bans English dailies from WB libraries

Stoking a controversy, the West Bengal government has banned English and mass-circulation Bengali dailies at state-sponsored and aided libraries in the state which will make available only eight......

West Bengal's 'chit fund'-fuelled media boom

In the past three years, the advertising pie in Bengal has grown at least four-fold, courtesy what are loosely termed chit fund companies. Market sources, however, say none of these are actually......

Mrinal Sen: 'I wish I could start from scratch'

'How do you expect me to tone down my anger when the most prominent culture in India today is the culture of corruption, in every sphere of life?'Mrinal Sen, who passed into the ages on December 30......