Ruchir Joshi | | Published 23.02.21, 02:08 AM
I’ve been watching a lot of films on the various OTT platforms. Besides showing you new films, platforms such as MUBI also allow you to take your pick from old favourites and classics that you’ve maybe seen long ago, and recently I found myself clicking on all sorts of gems from the past. Watching some of these films on my laptop screen is a strange experience. It’s not an exact analogy, but I did find myself thinking of peering at one of those tiny-printed, miniature versions of books, re-reading the ones that you’ve first read in a properly-sized volume. After a lot of such viewing, something also felt a bit off about the fact that I could fast-forward, rewind, pause and go do something or even suspend my viewing of a film for a few days. It occurred to me that from now on, for the foreseeable future, this is h
The many moods of Leander ‘The same middle-class boy from Park Street and Ballygunge, if I can do it, anybody can’ Leander Paes talks about growing up in calcutta, building his own ‘community’, his love for cycling, and his plans post-tennis, in a straight-from-the-heart chat with The Telegraph Saionee Chakraborty | | Published 15.12.20, 01:10 AM
When we met Leander Paes four years back, he had told us: “For me, I will know when my time is done. I’ll know when I’m done”. And, though the 47-year-old announced ‘One Last Roar’ in 2019, a part of us wanted to believe that the swansong will be deferred. Back in his hometown after 10 months to launch Motovolt e-cycles, Leander was a picture of calm and good vibes, like always. And, that mind seemed to be