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…
That day my maternal uncle came with aunty and their daughter, my didi. I was not in a mood to enjoy their visit. Because that day was Dashomi. The end…
There are some singers who are born with some luck. That luck gives them some fame. There are some singers who are born with some dedication. That dedication makes them…
I went out for a walk, After the longest day Close to twilight. The deep orange skin Screened the western sky I stood and watched; and then took The red-earth…
Success does not come empty-handed. It comes with bundles of hassles. The first measures of success are how many turn jealous against you; how many friends you lose; how many…
It’s right we’re going through some tough times. It’s right we’re finding it tough to negotiate crisis which plunges the whole world into unprecedented crisis. It’s right we’re taken aback…
In the sudden silence of Ulhas As I sat by the window, alone, And turned the pages of Geetobitan, Songs written, lay littered in monsoon melody, Page after page before…
Time is sometimes hard to cruise by. It is like a proverbial golden goose. Maybe, we expect too much from it. When Time refuses to oblige, we get into first…