Woman IPS officer accuses a top Tamil Nadu police official of sexual harassment, Madras High Court takes suo motu notice
Mamata throws a challenge to Suvendu Adhikari, announces her decision to contest from his bastion of Nandigram; Trinamool candidates list out
After Rashtriya Janata Dal and Samajwadi Party, Shiv Sena backs Mamata Banerjee in the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation sets aside Rs.1,400 crore for the rejuvenation of Mumbai’s rivers
The Goa Foundation says a new proposal of the Ministry of Mines infringes on the rights of State governments and would lead to the sale of mines at below-market prices
Tamil Nadu government bans registration of land within 5km radius of Madras Atomic Power Station at Kalpakkam
Jitendra Tiwari, Trinamool MLA and former Mayor of Asansol, joins BJP on a day when ECI notifies first of eight-phase Assembly election
An international online symposium of university teachers calls for the creation of a forum to address the major disruption in academics caused by COVID-19 pandemic
Influential Bengal cleric Abbas Siddiqui takes the stage at Left-Congress Kolkata rally, announces support of his ISF to Left Front in election
Mamata Banerjee slams EC for eight phase election in West Bengal and asks if the schedule was made on orders of Modi and Shah
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Kolkatar King Disturbing reflections “Kolkatar King” holds a mirror up to a society which has gone morally bankrupt, where ...
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Kolkata Film festival Old masters, new stars The 21st Kolkata International Film Festival showcased some of the best works of the ...
"Court" Quietly eloquent PARTHA CHATTERJEE "Court" creates a believable, real world through a measured narrative that ...
February 28, 1992 The Amitabh phenomenon AMITABH BACHCHAN. The man behind the mystique of megastardom, whose 86 films in the last ...
September 16, 1998 ‘Not art for art’s sake’ BALU MAHENDRA, who wrote and directed Veedu, which won this year’s national award for ...
Satyajit Ray Walking tall December 20, 1991 SATYAJIT RAY, Bengal’s contribution to cinema, is every bit as important ...
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Unmediated Prefiguring journalistic truth-telling AN 85-year-old film made at the cusp of the transition from the silent to the sound ...
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Documentary Songs of the soil Ilangovan Rajasekaran A video documentary pays tribute to the immense contribution of theTamil lyricist ...
Realism Failure of realism When Indian art cinema, with encouragement from the state, began as a movement around ...
Interview Celebrating diversity R. Ilangovan Yaadhum, a documentary tracing the roots of Tamil Muslims, evocatively portrays a ...
Sri Lanka Surveillance and survival SIVAMOHAN SUMATHY In post-war Sri Lanka, Sinhala cinema is all about triumphal cultural nationalism. What ...
Requiem for film WE have known for some years now that the days of film as film are numbered, that movies ...
Hindi Changing values M.K. RAGHAVENDRA From films highlighting moral values to those portraying “illegality as enterprise”, ...
Cinema Eurasian images The 9th Eurasia International Film Festival in Almaty, Kazakhstan, had a bouquet of ...
