The cruel year that was 2020 caused us several losses, among them one of Indian football's greatest legends. Born on January 15, 1938, Subimal 'Chuni' Goswami passed away last April. However, though it is birthday today, September is perhaps the month when we should be
Feluda Pherot During the seemingly endless year of 2020, as the world grappled with immense challenges and gradually got used to newer ways of life, the one great source of succour and sustenance proved to be entertainment. More specifically, paid OTT platforms, which brought the very
Thousands and thousands of tattered books floating on muddy waters, devastated shop owners trying desperately to salvage whatever they could from the wreckage, an entire commercial ecosystem on the verge of ruin. These were the images Kolkata woke up to on the morning of May
India has recorded more than 1.03 crore confirmed COVID-19 cases and 1.49 lakh coronavirus-related deaths so far. A fresh wave of the infected, possibly bearing the new strain of the virus, have made their way into the country from the UK. As of this morning,
With new film releases postponed, live performances and social events cancelled, and recordings stalled, India’s entertainment industry has been hit particularly hard by the Covid crisis. Most of 2020 was spent simply trying to survive the disastrous economic impact of an unprecedented pandemic, with marketing
In a recent special piece for the Hindustan Times, veteran sports writer Ayaz Memon wrote, “While Mumbai is still the home of cricket in India, the soul resides in Kolkata.” Well, that soul has been in tatters in 2020. A casual walk around the Maidan, home
Born in Bombay in the year of India’s independence, died by suicide in a small Los Angeles jail cell in 1994. In sum, this was the life and death of Somen ‘Steve’ Banerjee who remains, till date, the most infamous Bengali immigrant to have landed
Chances are, most of us first heard of, or read about, Manoj Guha when he passed away two years ago, at the age of 98. If we were alert, that is, because most major media publications more or less ignored the news of his passing.
T“he Portuguese, when they settled anywhere, began by building a church; the Dutch by building a fort, and the English by building a tavern.” This remarkable observation, the source of which is as yet unknown to this writer, is to be seen on a plaque at
The only man to have created a Bengali nation. Whatever else history remembers about ‘Bongobondhu’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, this fact remains inescapable. Approaching the half-century of the liberation of Bangladesh, a Kolkata publisher has brought out an anthology of writings edited by Suman Bhattacharyya titled