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My dear readers, Today as I was talking to a motley crowd of students, a girl student asked me, ‘what’s happiness, sir?’ I couldn’t think of any answer at once.…

Princes are like this. They take life as they tweak it to come. They never allow life as it comes to them. They set the term; life has to follow.…

Like many more, I too have some hope of a die-hard optimist that Soumitra Chatterjee would emerge victorious over his fight both against Corona and Corona-triggered Cancer. But like all…

Let us light the lamp. Let the roof, window, veranda – entire house, the road that takes a left turn down the south to a Chhatim tree, which intoxicates the…

I was a political journalist. I had been covering proceedings of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. One day Mr. Triguna Sen came to my house and asked me to do…

I wake up late because I go to bed very late. Today should have been no exception. But it was. Something very soundful beat on my ear drums. I could…

This puja brings in an array of jargons when it comes to pandal-hopping: No-Entry zone, social-distancing, sanitising and getting masked. The sequence of all these occasions a consequence – anjali…

Bengali film industry has seldom come across a figure that combines beauty with brain. Six-footer Soumitra Chatterjee, is that figure the Tollywood should be proud with. Rarely deep eyes, rosy…

When one fathers a son, he should be prepared to bear the anxiety and pain associated with it. It was the same with Gandhi. It was, rather more. He fathers…

I may have reached eighty. But I feel eighteen. Lata Mangeshkar said on her eightieth birthday. This is what it takes to be a Lata Mangeshkar who can sing Dil…