One winter evening in Calcutta, when I was ten, we ran out of food in our third floor flat. It was a freak concatenation of circumstances, not poverty, that led to our predicament, but the fact ...

The lockdown shorts series from Windows Production is already one of the most talked-about Bengali short film series. They have released their new short film ‘Banobas’. The latest short film from ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. By now, it’s an old joke: Molière’s Bourgeois Gentilhomme discovers that he has been speaking something called ...

In 2013, Indranil Roychowdhury made a fantastic feature debut with the Bengali coming- of-age film Phoring (Dragonfly), which centered around a small town boy’s feelings for his school teacher.

Martin Short’s Daughter Found Dead; Gunshot Shock As Investigators Move In Tragedy has struck the family of legendary comedian Martin Short after his daughter Katherine Hartley Short died at the age ...

New Delhi, May 8 () When penning a book of Bengali short stories, it is only natural to begin with Rabindranath Tagore's 'Kabuliwallah,' the iconic tale of friendship between an Afghani dry-fruit ...

Post-mortem, by Sunil Gangopadhyay, was based on a real-life incident of a man shamed for entering a ladies' special tram. Photo: Jayanta Shaw/Reuters The moment an editor/translator inserts the word ...

A moment from Amra Kajon Drama Society's 'Bhoy', put up as part of the All India Bengali Short Drama Competition, or the National Theatre Festival, organized by the New Delhi Kalibari in association ...

Durga Puja isn’t just about pandal hopping and feasting in Kolkata — it is also about family time, childhood memories and nostalgia that refuses to die. It is this emotion that many filmmakers have ...

Many Gen Z Bengalis in Kolkata are only capable of reading their favourite Feluda stories by Satyajit Ray in English translation. For the benefit of this ever-expanding class and others as well, it ...

Aleph’s new book comes with a beautiful cover and a courageous title. The Greatest Bengali Stories Ever Told, selected and translated by Arunava Sinha, is definitive in its name, and no doubt, its ...