‘Aranyak’ is a time-tested novel by the ace Bengali novelist Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay. Those non-Bengalis unfamiliar with the name should be given a tip about the magnitude of greatness of the man. He penned Pather Panchali, the illustrious novel later made into…
‘It’s ok to be mediocre,’ this is what Group Captain Varun Singh, the lone survivor of the Indian Air Force chopper crash, had conveyed to the students of his school in a letter to its principal in September. Group Captain Singh wrote the…
Series 5 Part 2 Review As we bid adieu to the Professor and his charismatic gang, I have no qualms in admitting that this was the best possible ending one could have hoped for. Part 2 of the ending season is even…
The urge of being intellectual has been haunting Bengali movies for the past few decades, so much so that Bengali directors have literally forgotten the art of storytelling. Nothing is told in a simple, straightforward manner, one of the few basics of…
I do not see many people talking about a gem like ‘Mare of Easttown’. This is unfortunate. In today’s world, any product wrapped in a gaudy package with ultra-PR techniques gets peoples’ attention, while masterpieces like ‘Mare of Easttown’ with a classical…
Several concerns have been raised in respect to the new COVID variant Omicron, which was first detected in South Africa and was reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on 24 November. The global health organization on Friday designated the newly discovered…
Mahesh Manjarekar in his outings in the last one and half decades appeared a pale shadow of his older version, the one who gave us masterpieces like Astitva or Vaastav. Even though he made some interesting Marathi films meanwhile, Bollywood was definitely…
Netflix is back with another Korean web series as Hellbound started streaming barely a week back. The success of Squid Game must have prompted the makers to go online with the product which mostly appears to be hastily made, hurriedly edited, and…
কলমে সুমনা চ্যাটার্জী পেরেছে অর্ক পেরেছে। অন্তত একজন অবলার সবলা হওয়ার পথকে সে প্রশস্ত করতে পেরেছে।এই একবিংশ শতাব্দী তে দাড়িয়েও যখন বাল্য বিবাহ,অশিক্ষায় জর্জরিত করুন মুখগুলোকে দেখে মনটা তার হুহু করে ওঠে।করোনা কালে এমন কত অবলা কে যে বাল্য বিবাহের যুপকাষ্ঠে…
