How Bhaipo plans to make Trinamool a national player

33-year-old Abhishek Banerjee has emerged as the most visible and significant leader in the party after his pishi (aunt), Mamata Banerjee reports Ishita Ayan Dutt.  IMAGE: TMC......

Bengali theatre actor dropped from play after joining BJP

A theatre group in West Bengal, known for its productions on socio-economic themes, has dropped an artiste from a play after the actor joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. Saurav Palodhi, whose Ghum......

Bengal's tinsel town takes sides in high-octane TMC vs BJP battle

Ironically, the BJP, which seeks to unseat the TMC from power, has taken a leaf out of Mamata Banerjee's strategy of soliciting tinsel town's support towards causes and fielding actors in......

Saffron is a different colour now

The colour has been rendered to activities that would have astonished Swami Vivekananda, says Sunanda K Datta Ray.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The censors forced Utpal Dutt to re-shoot......

Can Modi dig India out of the COVID hole?

'A balanced head plus heart approach would be a full opening up of the economy including manufacturing and internal travel in the country but excluding COVID-19 hotspots,' recommends Jaimini......

'I'd have loved to present Pratidwandi at Cannes'

'Where Pratidwandi is concerned, there are very few men standing.' IMAGE: Dhritiman Chatterjee in Satyajit Ray's Pratidwandi. Dhritiman Chatterjee, a post-graduate in economics, came from a world......

How Bollywood Treats Its BETIS

Daughters are a blessing, they say. But in Jayeshbhai Jordaar, Ranveer Singh will move heaven and earth to keep his daughter alive after the gynaecologist reveals that his second child is also a......

'War is a real estate business'

'I am against any kind of violence.' IMAGE: A Ukrainian soldier holds a Kalashnikov AK-12 captured from Russian troops in the Kyiv region, March 31, 2022. Photograph: Serhii Nuzhnenko/Reuters......

When Bollywood hired FAKE PARENTS

It's one of Bollywood's beloved tropes -- wiggling out of tricky situations by creating phony identities or throwing on a funny disguise. And like nearly every single thing in Hindi movies,......

When Pelemania Gripped India

The enormous structured global advertising machinery that surrounds every football game on the planet today?Pele was perhaps single-handedly responsible for all of it.By just being brilliant,......

The footballer Satyajit Ray adored

Satyajit Ray's world revolved around Edson Arantes Do Nascimento, better known to millions of football fanatics as Pele."It was not possible to watch a match on television during Baba's (Ray's)......