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Ray, a hundred years on: This film auteur gave us a spectacular oeuvre which distilled contemporary times April 28, 2021, 9:17 PM IST The writer is a historian and writer. She edits the journal South Asian History and Culture. She is the author of Bengali Cinema: An Other Nation. Her first fiction is Menoka has Hanged Herself. LESS... MORE In a recent interview marking the 100th birth centenary of Satyajit Ray, three days from today, his son Sandip Ray stated that if his father was alive perhaps he would have remade the political satire Hirak Rajar Deshe, the sequel to his ...

There’s been no escaping  pishi and  pishi — not so much  bhaipo — remains one of the few surviving sentinels guarding the citadel of a pluralist Bengal. Those at Bengal’s doors —  pishi’s detractors — think otherwise: the pair, they allege, represents nepotism and corruption that they would get rid of with a few lusty blows of their (majoritarian) broom. The depravity of politics — Bengal’s politics is not an exception — is such that it often forces viewers to turn their gaze elsewhere: towards, say, a far more luminous  pishi-bhaipo pairing. Leela Majumdar, a co...

Do we really have to 'mankey' about? SECTIONS Last Updated: Apr 23, 2021, 09:00 AM IST Share iStock Unlike Lewis Carroll’s half-lion, half-eagle gryphon, or Sukumar Ray’s hansjaru (duck+porcupine=duckupine), bokkochhop (stork+tortoise=stortoise) and other amalgams such as the half-giraffe, half-grasshopper and half-cow, half-rooster, the birth of the ‘mankey’ may pose ethical and legal implications. Hanuman kasam, a US-Chinese team of scientists has created the world’s first human-monkey embryo. The project — which feels like the origin story of a Spider-Man villain, Rhesusman �...

Suvendu alleges rigging, says Mamata 'pressurised' officials to defeat BJP in Arambagh LS election ANI | Updated: Apr 01, 2021 22:45 IST Purba Medinipur (West Bengal) [India], April 1 (ANI): BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of electoral malpractices and said she had "pressurised" district officials in Arambagh Lok Sabha constituency in the 2019 general elections so that "votes in 16 EVMs are not counted" and BJP is defeated. TMC candidate Aparupa Poddar had won the seat by a narrow margin. ...

Not a single health centre or health clinic run by the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation  administered Covid-19 vaccines to those above 60 years or older and those aged between 45 and 59 with comorbidities till Sunday. The only vaccination centre run by the government for all the 41 wards under Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation  is at the Bidhannagar Sub-Divisional Hospital near City Centre. On Sunday, a senior civic official said that they were planning to open vaccination centres at several places, including Matrisadan Hospital in Salt Lake’s EE Block, Deshbandhu Nagar Hospital in Rajar...