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It's been 50 years since Bimal Roy's Bandini and Satyajit Ray's Mahanagar were released. Both presented strong women protagonists breaking the mould of the typical heroine of that time. shoma a chatterji recollectsBIMAL Roy's Bandini, starring Nutan ...

A movie of golden era Dear Editor, The golden days of Indian cinema ended with the passing away of greats like Bimal Roy, Mehboob Khan and the Chopra brothers, who made meaningful movies. Yet, after a long time, an all-attention catching film like Irrfan ...

Darjeeling, May 16: The Bengal government and the GTA have worked out a swap on the upkeep of two buildings Roy Villa, which is associated with Sister Nivedita, and the Tenzing Norgay Youth Hostel. Roy Villa is under the GTA administration, while ...

Darjeeling, May 14: Mamata Banerjee today did not utter a word on the sensitive Gorkhaland issue and Bimal Gurung, who broke the ice with a packet of Darjeeling Tea, said their discussion was extremely successful. The chief minister, who is on a ...

Early in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's new novel, Oleander Girl, the dead mother of Korobi Roy appears to the young woman in a dream, beckoning to her from a bedroom window. Reading the novel, I felt as if I were that mother, an omniscient presence ...

Party general secretary Mukul Roy, who took the centre stage, accused the poll panel of being in collusion with the CPM, BJP and the Congress in what he claimed as a tactic to delay the poll. When the Trinamool was in the Opposition, they did not ...

March 19: A Gorkha Janmukti Morcha team, probably led by chief Bimal Gurung and accompanied by tribal leader John Barla, would meet Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leaders in Ranchi on March 24 for decisive talks on their panchayat poll alliance. Some ...

Mega gala events, full of glitter and glamour, have begun to mark 2013 as the birth centenary of Indian cinema with the 1913 release of Dadasaheb Phalke's silent film Raja Harishchandra. However, going relatively unnoticed is the fact that 2013 is ...

Agartala: Suspected contract killers stabbed to death three employees of a local vernacular daily on its office premises in the heart of this town around 3 last afternoon and escaped the crime scene with ease. Though a sniffer dog was set after them about an ...