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A marked shift in realising this moral decay on screen is apparent from Aranyer Din Ratri to his Calcutta trilogy — Pratidwandi, Jana Aranya. In Pratidwandi, Dhritiman Chatterjee’s Siddhartha declares that he doesn’t want to leave Kolkata, no matter that he is unemployed, with his mind unable to find an ideological footing. The film coincided with the Naxalite movement that began in Bengal, with the caste system and land rights at its root. Still from ‘Pratidwandi’.   It’s no coincidence that the trilogy charted the course of Indira Gandhi’s India as it inched towards Emerg...

Amitabha Bhattacharya Former Bureaucrat THE birth centenary of Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) is an occasion to reflect on his creative output, mainly in cinema, as also in literature and related art forms. So far, the response has largely been unalloyed admiration in Bengali-speaking areas, and a respectful indifference in the rest of India, except among filmmakers and cinema enthusiasts. In the West, respect for Ray remained undimmed, but acclaim started waning for his later films. All this can be partially explained through the myths and images associated with the Ray phenomenon. The first myth ...

Mr Big, The Russian, Jack 'Post It' Berger, The Twenty Something, The Politician... as Aidan is CONFIRMED for Sex And The City reboot, we take a look at all 28 of Carrie's lovers On Thursday, Sex And The City fans were sent wild when actor John Corbett revealed he is set to reprise his role as Carrie's former fiancé and second great love Aidan Shaw in the upcoming reboot And Just Like That  The eagerly-anticipated HBO Max series will consist of ten episodes and will see the return of most main characters, bar Samantha Jones, played by Kim Cattrall, and with questions over Mr Big, played by ...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on December 10, 2020 at 2:34 PM Two F-22 Raptors and one B-2 Spirit, deployed to Andersen Air Force Base on Guam, fly in formation over the Pacific. WASHINGTON: In a clear appeal to the incoming Biden administration, the commander of the Air Force’s strategic bombers and ICBMs says America’s allies are counting on us to stay the course and completely modernize our nuclear triad — not cut it back. Gen. Timothy Ray’s remarks to today’s online Triad Symposium were pre-recorded. It’s not clear if he knew, when he made his arguments, that Biden had deci...