It was September of 1977. This forty-five-year-old memory is as fresh in my mind as if it happened last month. Indeed, do I remember what
The House was planned for single female cat lovers to live together for a while; maybe for several months or a few years. All residents
Who remembers Jagadish Chandra Bose today? Perhaps only scientists involved in advanced research in the sciences he had specialized in. School going children might be
The Heavenly Christmas Tree is a short story by the great Russian storyteller Fyodor Dostoyevsky. First published in 1876, the story is also known as
The simple oats porridge evolved, as people began to improvise by adding spices, honey and dried fruit, especially plums or prunes and it transformed into
I have had many memorable experiences decorating Christmas trees, but none of them were as memorable as this because there was a new member who
Degas, though Parisian by birth, spent three important years of his youth in Italy, where he immersed himself in European Renaissance art. He filled sketchbooks
Hrishikesh Mukherjee was born in September 1922 and the 28th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) has organized a centenary tribute to Hrishikesh Mukherjee through the
The story of my friend is the story of every Indian and perhaps most people across the world. Our society, religion and culture have depersonalised,
from the get-go, Partha was working with different mediums on a variety of surfaces. Now an engineer, Partha sells his paintings and donates the proceeds
Coke Studio Pakistan was, majorly, the brainchild of the head of The Coca-Cola Company, Nadeem Zaman. He wanted to create a musical show for Pakistan,
Arthur Symons in his seminal work The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899) introduced and analysed French Symbolist authors. In this essay he discusses the style
The books that we now read, and which appear at bookshops once self-labelled as ‘left’, are less about the (apparently always predominantly white, male, and
His debut film Jwar Bhata (1944) though a reasonable hit in Bombay, did not run well at other centres. It was with Jugnu (1947) in
The reason could be multiple for women to not speak up. Most are frightened, because the judgement is severe, if she fails. The truth that
His voice was rasping, cold, and monotonous in a low key. He could not be called a talkative personality; but with his detached calm manner
