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‘Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbo Na’: Major Disappointment

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Watched the all new much-hyped Anjan Dutt-movie Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbo Na (official website) with Rajarshi, Saurav and Chandradeep at Priya Cinema this evening. Heard such raving reviews about it but the movie is hardly upto the mark! A good dose of antlami, a generous serving of Anjan’s melodrama and his love for the charm of Kolkata, [...]

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From the United States of America: Part 3: Return to India

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Firstly a big sorry for not being able to come up with something for long as quite a number of things were happening together. But as it goes, better late than never, I thought of concluding my long awaited 3rd part of the so called travelogue.  I ended the From the United States of America: [...]

Mumbai Has Me Now

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“Mumbai is a cruel city,” you’ll always hear them saying that. And perhaps the famous quote from the not-so-famous recent comedy flick, “The Hangover II” applies to Mumbai more than Bangkok- “Mumbai has her now.” I am going to be evicted from my apartment in a month and I have no place to go. Mumbai [...]

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Jan Lokpal: Is it a political slugfest or a failed exercise?

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India against Corruption – no, this is not a stylish beginning to the ongoing article but this is the NGO that has been the centre of the Indian political theatre over the last three months. It’s the front organization of the so-called civil society led by Sri Anna Hazare, which is arguably fighting against corruption [...]

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Raichak Long Drive-Part 1:The Preparation

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On a certain Friday in April 2011 I was standing, rather getting roasted under the scorching sun’s rays in a certain bus-stop when Aniruddha Mittra aka Ching, The Voyager in my Gang, called up. ‘Shon T ei Sunday free rakhis, Baba ke bole gari ta arrange korchi, amra long drive e berobo for the whole [...]

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Tagore Stories on Film

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To celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, the Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India, has come up with a special 6 DVD collection titled ‘Tagore Stories on Film’. The five films in the set are: Khudito Pashan (Hungry Stone) | Tapan Sinha | 1960 | Bengali | 106 min | [...]

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Chalo Dilli – A Stress Relief Movie

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Last sunday while I was doing some shopping at City Centre mall Nasik, one of my friends brought the proposal to watch the movie Chalo Dilli starring Vinay Pathak and Lara Dutta, directed by Shashant Shah with a guest appearance of Akshay Kumar. There were some 2/3 hindi movies running that time along with super [...]

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Tagore was the Greatest Literary Figure of All Time

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We Bengalis are sometimes accused of being inordinately proud of our cultural accomplishments and in particular, of raising Rabindranath Tagore to the level of an unchallengeable icon. I was fortunately in Calcutta and Siliguri during the run up to the 150th birth anniversary of the Poet and managed to catch many [...]

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Wait for the Sun

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15th August- back home Mumu must have made luchi and payesh . But she would have to satisfy herself with pseudo Bangali cuisine at a dingy restaurant at the corner of her neighborhood. Sharing her thali with a stranger- a friend of a friend, who in a strange land becomes a friend, she looked at [...]

An Ode to the Fathers of St. Lawrence

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The school years are the best years as they say! :D And as I look back, let me remember the Fathers we had in St. Lawrence, the great missionaries who renounced material life, came to our country and added so much value to our society. We were one of the last batches to be taught [...]

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