'As one gets older, one is drawn towards home'

In a special series, Rediff.com looks at India through the lives of her people. Today: Mohammed Taufiq, a waiter for 36 years at Kolkata's famous Coffee House. A fan of Manna De, he encounters at......

In West Bengal, the cuppa doesn't cheer

Samaresh Majumdar is not enthusiastic at all about West Bengal election this year. The eminent Bengali writer can't get over the fact that hundreds of tea workers residing in his native Jalpaiguri......

The man behind Devdas, Parineeta

Parineeta, Vidhu Vinod Chopra's newest production, was set in the 1960s. But today's audiences have embraced it and made it one of the multiplex hits of the year.One can'thelp comparing it with......