Mrinal-Ritwik-Tapan films in dire need of being restored

It has initiated efforts to get full details only now. The pension scheme run by the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), a decades-old statutory body with 80 million members, doesn’t have the date of birth of almost 95 per cent of them. This means, it has little idea of the money it needs to pay each month for its members’ pension, the date when members would be eligible to get a pension and, of course, the number of pension eligibilities each year - despite an annual ...

'We had been talking for two hours about India and America and we stopped and looked at each other. "The issues are the same," said my hyper-successful and patriotic NRI friend, his hidden Indian self somewhere wanting to empathise. Yes, I agreed, only the planets that we inhabit seem different, notes B S Prakash.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh "What are the disruptive forces at work, here, then?" asked my friend from the Silicon Valley. He was a hyper-successful and patriotic NRI, but was visiting ...

India is remembering one of its greatest filmmakers Satyajit Ray on his 92nd birthday on Thursday. To recognise his immense contribution to the Indian cinema, Google doodle is also paying tribute to the legendary filmmaker by showing a scene from ...

We'd invited you, our readers to share your love stories. Reader Sunny writes about his love story. This is about two years ago. Vipasha and I were working in a insurance company in Delhi. I'm senior to her by about ten years in job. Still, I remember the day she joined the office, we met very formally and did not notice each other. Even after two years of having worked together, we hadn't known each other very well. We talked on few occasions and only for official purposes. One day on ...

indo-asian news service KOLKATA, 31 MARCH: A collection of about 250 pictures of legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray and sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, freezing poignant moments in their professional and personal lives, compiled into two ...

If only our roads were less congested, metros less crowded, markets a little more cleaner and air and water purer; our happiness would be greater... feels B S Prakash, India's former ambassador to Brazil.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh Some time ago, Rediff carried a feature listing the ten happiest countries in the world. I read it with interest and thereafter went to the original sources on which this survey was based. The list was a surprise. Seven countries from Latin America and Caribbean ...

The designer of the Day 3 goes to the duo Abraham & Thakore, for a collection that stood out for its master craftsmanship and chic style. The blend of traditional textiles and brocades with geometrical and horizontal motifs resulted in a collection ...