The Covid-19 pandemic has opened up a new, ever-changing, perilous and transitory world, and so does the film Titane, that revisits the language of ‘taking care’. This offbeat offering is for those who are equally open to the idea of ‘tenderness’ and the pain that
“A man who drank like a fish, smiled like an angel, fought his enemies like a demon and loved his comrades like a primitive God.” This is a quote from an entry on Sagina Mahato in the British Library’s Endangered Archives Blog. It is not clear
The Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS) 2022, the sixth such summit since 2015, has potentially turned into the most successful BGBS of all. As West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee pointed out at the valedictory session of the two-day meet held on April 20 and
Despite the bone-chilling cold of its location of Murmansk in Russia’s remote north-west, there’s a wonderful human warmth and humour in this offbeat romantic story of strangers on a train. Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen, whose 2016 film The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli
আমার জন্য একটুখানি কবর খোঁড়ো সর্বসহা লজ্জা লুকোই কাঁচা মাটির তলে- গোপন রক্ত যা-কিছুটুক আছে আমার শরীরে, তার সবটুকুতে শস্য যেন ফলে। O earth, dig a small grave for me Let me hide my shame under the raw soil– Whatever secret blood is in my body, Let every ounce ripen the grains. Our
The Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) 2022 has lined up a series of exclusive foreign films that one would otherwise perhaps have missed. Thanks to KIFF, film buffs will now have a chance to watch Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero, a film that has
Serampore is a quiet town, 35 kilometers from Kolkata on the other side of the River Hooghly, right opposite Barrackpore. As soon as one sets foot here, time travel begins. Hundreds of years have passed but even today, every brick-and-mortar structure of the medieval town
Adieu GODARD, a feature film written and directed by National Award winner Amartya Bhattacharyya and produced under the banner of Swastik Arthouse, will have its Indian premiere at the prestigious 27th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF). This Indo-French venture, featuring Choudhury Bikash Das as the
Representative image A civilization dating back to 1,000-1,200 years has been found in the vicinity of the world’s largest coastal mangrove forest in Sundarbans. Around the time of the Pala Empire, from the 8th to 12th century, or possibly even older, this site has been unearthed
After a two-year gap, the Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS) is back on track, and indications are that it is likely to host some of the country’s biggest captains of industry, apart from a host of delegates from various countries. To be held on April 20