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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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‘Supporter of BJP met me’: Surat candidates on the various reasons they withdrew from the election
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CAA is a letdown, but Bengali Hindus in Assam are unlikely to ditch BJP
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What Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) had to say on violence, secularism, and religion in India
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Over 17,400 citizens write to EC seeking action against PM Narendra Modi for hate speech
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For better or for worse? Shifts in gender norms in India – in 12 charts
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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: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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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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In ‘Tahader Katha’, the many partitions endured by a freedom fighter
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Watch: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ trailer
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Start the week with a film: A legend returns in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
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In Cannes-bound ‘In Retreat’, a Ladakh that has rarely been seen before
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer