Java by Khalid Mughal

The city was lit bright, this time by the 4th of July fireworks, red, green and fiery orange. The upside-down rock must be dark this night too, it must’ve been damp just like last time, a chilly breeze must’ve flown over it. But I will never know again because I will never go there again. [...]

The city was lit bright. Not twinkling, a steady white glow, punctuated by flashes of the camera photographing cars jumping lights. But up here, on the upside-down rock, it was all darkness. I felt the chill as he lifted my t-shirt, but it was instantly warm when my belly touched his. Finger tips pressed against [...]

I will leave it for you all to find out on your own, but what I can guarantee is that, watch the movie for its brilliant editing, tight scripting without any scope for a loose thread, excellent acting by everyone and the use of the music in a brilliant sequential fashion.

One part of our childhood to which he had clung so tenaciously finally came to an end when the surviving member of the Goopy Bagha duo, Tapan Chatterji passed away yesterday. He was a professional actor and had acted in many movies, but to our generation he was Goopy Gyne, the failed vocalist who with the help of a boon from the King of the Ghosts, became singer par excellence.

The Green Party is going to be a reality in India all too soon, thanks to noted environment activist Subhas Dutta.

Tracking the history of the Jewish population in Kolkata. Following independence, the Jews gradually started flocking out of the city bringing down the population to its present figure of less than 10.