Kolkata: Parents of six-year-old Aabheri (name changed on request) didn’t have the answers to the question raised by her, as she descended from their car. Aabheri, a Class I student in a reputed missionary school in central Kolkata was asking question related to the change of attitude of people…
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Famous Kashmiri doctor gets death threats, warned to leave Kolkata
Kolkata: A city which has given shelter to riot victims of 1984 or 2002 and has always stood for pluralism and…
Bengal’s Bablu had cleared CRPF exam twice, after serving two decades, he was to…
Kolkata: Among the 40 CRPF jawans killed during the dastardly attack on a military convoy, in Kashmir’s Pulwama on…
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Kolkata: Did you know that Mamata Banerjee, the present Chief Minister of West Bengal, detested CPI (M) to such an extent that she never consumed laal cha (liquor tea)? Untold trivia about the much talked about Didi of Bengal was the crux of the third session of the recently concluded Women…
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A Lit Fest in Kolkata, creates symbiotic and democratic space for the women…
Kolkata: Before the season of book fairs and literature festivals set up its mood for January 2019,…
Meet the Meo-Muslim woman, who bags the maximum votes by any candidate in…
Jaipur: Zahida Khan, a Meo-Muslim looks all set to create a record, if she manages to bag a ministerial post in…
Let There Be Light
Kolkata: Creating convergence to neutralise fault lines present between communities on the basis of religion, caste, class and regionalism was the topic where writers like Nazia Erum, Tabish Khair and Abdullah Khan spoke at length at Kolkata Literary Meet on Republic Day. With Paroma Roy Chowdhury…
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How a start-up from Kolkata saved the life of a leukemia patient from Bangladesh
Kolkata: Twenty-seven-year-old Rima Begum, a resident of Chittagong, Bangladesh, was diagnosed with Leukemia…
Kolkata hosts its first Queer Literary Festival
Kolkata: The season to celebrate literature has set in. And Calcutta alone will be hosting not one but three…
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Has Mahendra Singh Dhoni become selectors’ nightmare?
In the recently concluded Asia Cup, Mahendra Singh Dhoni looked a pale shadow of his former self. His diehard fans somehow found him out of his depth. He was finding it difficult to play his natural shots against the likes of Afghanistan…
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All is not lost: Team India can still make a comeback in the remaining tests
Delhi: On Monday, a daily from Mumbai carried an interesting picture on its front page. It captured the pensive and dour faces of Sanjay Bangar, Ravi Shastri and skipper Virat Kohli standing on the Lord's balcony watching the pathetic…
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The ‘endangered’ cricket ball
Kolkata: Do you know that the cherry coloured ball, which Bhuvneshwar Kumar will gently rub on his pants before running a couple of steps and hurling it towards Pakistani opener Ahmed Shehzad at Birmingham, is an endangered artifact?…
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CinemaScope
The portrayal of woman in Hindi Cinema
‘Anaarkali of Aarah’ is a story of an adult-entertainer, Anaarkali, from the town Aarah of Bihar. The film is directed by Avinash Dash and released in 2017. The film raises some very important issues related with the females in…
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Fifteen awards and counting, meet one of India’s youngest short filmmaker
Kolkata: He wasn’t much into thrillers or crime fiction or the horror genre. But when this young boy packed his bags and shifted base from Pink City of India, Jaipur to the Maximum City, Mumbai. With dreams in his eyes to make a mark in the…
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Flawed education system, the cause of hatred in India, says Bollywood actor Adil Hussain
Kolkata: Meeting someone as sensitive and versatile as Adil Hussain, who wears his heart on his sleeves is a different experience altogether. With no pomp, no air about himself, the actor settles down for a tete-a-tete on a hot humid day at…
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