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
The Indian Museum recently witnessed an eclectic Seminar titled ‘Recent Researches on Harappan Culture’ last week. There was a display of various artifacts too that were unearthed from the Harappan Civilisation, one of the oldest civilisations of the world. Eminent academicians Prof. Vasant Shinde, (CSIR
Limelight Building The Kolkata Police Heritage Organisation. Sounds unfamiliar? Not likely to be for too much longer, if former Kolkata Police Commissioner Soumen Mitra has anything to do with it. Formed with the objective of preserving the heritage buildings of Kolkata Police, of which there are
India has several centres for neurosurgery, but none of them in the Eastern region. Patients from our part of the country travel long distances to be treated for neurological disorders, most of them unable to afford the costs involved. When the Institute of Neurosciences, Kolkata