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Sandip Roy
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021): A bookseller who was a poet who was a publisher who was a writer
Ferlinghetti, who published the legendary Beat poets and founded the iconic City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco died on February 22 at the age of 101.
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What Rakesh Khanna learnt while putting together a book on India’s ghosts, monsters and demons
Ghosts across histories and geographies, now available for handy reference.
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Soumitra Chatterjee (1935-2020): Acting legend, principled lodestar, utterly decent human being
He died on November 15 from Covid-19 complications in Kolkata. He was 85.
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Trending
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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
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Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
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‘The Goat Life’ review: A protracted saga of suffering and survival
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A decade under Modi: Rising unemployment, declining wages, poor quality jobs
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‘We have not comprehended the real scars left by the lockdown’: Author Udayan Mukherjee
The financial journalist-turned-writer’s new book ‘Essential Items’ is a collection of short stories featuring the lives of people during the pandemic.
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For Bengali publishing, the pandemic has provided a much-needed push towards e-books
Lack of access to physical books finally forced publishers to cross the e-frontier that had been shying away from for years.
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A science fiction conference in Kolkata showed that the genre has remained alive and well in Bengal
It is true, however, that Indian science fiction has been a bit of a stepchild of the Indian literary canon.
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Video
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Watch: PTI posts video accusing male ANI reporter of assaulting and abusing its woman journalist
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Watch: Footballers give their jackets to young player escorts amidst heavy rain in New York City
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Caught on camera: Supermarket floor collapses, shopper falls through it
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‘Look at my wonderful costume’: Actor Anne Hathaway reacts to scenes from some of her popular movies
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Watch: Chef makes life-sized pencil and sharpener entirely from chocolate
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The book about Satyajit Ray’s ‘The Alien’ tells the story of the movie that wasn’t, in every sense
‘Travails With The Alien’ is not so much a book as it is a documentary in paperback.
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'I am American, not Asian-American.' Writer Bharati Mukherjee (1940-2017) never wanted a label
She wrote of hyphenated lives, but she did not want to be in a special section of the bookshelf.
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Photographs: How the colours of the Dhaka Lit Fest put out the darkness of anxiety
Held under the shadow of Islamic unrest, security concerns, and an atmosphere of uncertainty, the festival dispelled the gloom with its celebration of books and writers.
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The Reel
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‘Amar Singh Chamkila’ trailer: Diljit Dosanjh plays the slain Punjabi singer in Imtiaz Ali’s biopic
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Premiere date announced for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Heeramandi’
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‘The Goat Life’ review: A protracted saga of suffering and survival
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The secret ingredient of Pratik Gandhi’s success: ‘Salt to taste’
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‘Bade Miyan Chote Miyan’ trailer: Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff team up for action thriller