If you’ve missed the great Sandip Ray celluloid thriller, here is a chance to see the initial part of that – sourced from MegaVideo.
Hits and misses
The magic of online voting recently engulfed the collective imagination of over 100 million voters across the world to select what is termed as “The New 7 Wonders Of The World”. In India we have a wonder, the Taj Mahal, and thanks to constant reminders by television channels in the countdown to final announcement and […]
Kolkata’s Chinese
Meiyang Chang’s phenomenal success at the Indian Idol has firmly brought the focus on Chinese community in the city. Though Meiyang is shown to be hailing from Dhanbad, there’s no doubt his family has settled there after moving from Kolkata. Kolkata has the largest population of Chinese in India and they are mostly concentrated in […]
Too clever by half
Hope-2007 has dashed the hopes of many. It was planned as a grand spectacle of Bollywood stars making appearance to the gyrating hips on the stage and in gallery. But the hopes dashed like a pack of cards. What happened? Flash Forward Communications (FFC for short), a city-based event organizing company planned big. It contracted […]
The baton passes on
Maneka Sorcar is a proud legatee of that hard-to-find tradition of scientific magic, termed Indrajaal. PC Sorcar, who himself inherited the tradition from his illustrious father, PC Sorcar senior way back during tumultuous times of 1971, is called the Maharaja of Indian Magic. And why not! [Image source] But I like PC Sorcar’s conviction. The […]
Emami Chisel
A Ganesh Pyne creation, 1990. [Image source]The first permanent address of an art auction center in the city is going to be at the Emami Group’s HQ on EM Bypass near Ruby Hospital. There, occupying 2 floors of the Emami Building over a total area of 14,000 sq ft, will the auction center be. Emami […]
The fight of 2012
Calling on India – dream unfolds! [Image source] When the big bird, the A380 super duper, flew back to Toulouse yesterday from Mumbai, many hands bid it goodbye. Eyes followed as long as it could be seen in the sky before it melted away. Back to mundane, the question lingered on many lips: when are […]
Radio Mirchi’s 4 years
How times fly! Not long back, the government, apprehensive that private radio channels may jeopardize security to the nation, wasn’t inclined to the idea. It relented after much hemming and hawing, and when the permission came, the new opportunity was immediately lapped up by Radio Mirchi. Today private radio channels are dime a dozen. But […]
Clutching on to tails
Does this matter? Not really. [Image source] Publicity sans merit is a dream come true for many. People who subscribe to this virtue are usually prone to tagging on to tails of sensational happenings. The recent court case in Jaipur to punish Richard Gere for ‘obscenely’ kissing Shilpa Shetty on her cheek in an AIDS […]
The Namesake
Subtle, yet powerful [Picture source] Haven’t read the book, wasn’t much enthused when Jhumpa Lahiri’s marriage took place in Kolkata, or even at her son’s mukhebhaat (if I’m not wrong) a few months back, but when the film came, I felt an urge to see it, if only because not many worthies come these days. […]
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