Sunil Gangopadhyaya new prez of Sahitya Akademi

Noted Bengali writer Sunil Gangopadhyay was on Wednesday elected the new president of the Sahitya Akademi, considered India's most prestigious literary post. Gangopadhyay defeated noted Malayalam......

Tribute: 'From a young poet, he became a phenomenon'

Ace writer of Bengal Sunil Gangopadhyay is no more. His colleague and old associate Nabaneeta Dev Sen pays her tribute to the great litterateur The fact that Sunil Gangopadhyay is no more is yet to......

End of an era in Bengali literature

Death of Sahitya Akademi President Sunil Gangopadhyay marks the end of an era in Bengali literature. He, along with poet late Sakti Chattopadhyay, initiated uninhibited bohemianism in literature. A......

'Today Bengal has lost its man of the heart'

Eminent litterateur Sunil Gangopadhyay's sudden demise has stunned the literary world. Writer Samaresh Majumdar sums up the 'emptiness' being felt by the fraternity in Bengal, in this tribute......

The Best Films of Suchitra Sen

Legendary Bengali actress Suchitra Sen, who passed away today, has given us some brilliant films to remember her by. We take a look. 'Suchitra Sen is India's Greta Garbo,' late writer Sunil......

Mammootty, Meera Jasmine excel in Ore Kadal

What happens when a person experiences lust, morality, guilt and love all at once? This is the question that director Shyamaprasad's new Malayalam film Ore Kadal tries to explore. The film is an......

Fairytale Fights. Fables. Time Travel

Romance in the nineties, fairytale fights, fables and time travelling between mythological times to modern -- fantasy and reality collide on OTT this week. Sukanya Verma gives you some interesting......

The BEST of my father, Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray would have been a hundred years old on May 2. To mark the legendary film-maker's birth centenary, Rediff.com brings you a treasure trove of features from our archives. 'I don't need......