Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. By now, it’s an old joke: Molière’s Bourgeois Gentilhomme discovers that he has been speaking something called ...

Durga Puja isn’t just about pandal hopping and feasting in Kolkata — it is also about family time, childhood memories and nostalgia that refuses to die. It is this emotion that many filmmakers have ...

This year, Indian films like Anurag Kashyap's Raman Raghav 2.0 starring Nawazuddin and Vicky Kaushal, and Kabir Bedi-narrated documentary Mount of Excellence will be screened. Six Bengali short films ...

Bengali short film 'Pratibimbo', directed by Nirmalya Biswas, recently won the Critics’ Choice Award at the International Short Film Festival. The short film was earlier nominated at the prestigious ...

Tanni Chaudhuri-directed short film ‘Chowkath Periye’ was recently screened at the London Bengali Film Festival (LBFF). The short is a hard take on human narratives surrounding mental health. The ...

Rabindranath Tagore’s timeless classic ‘Kabuliwala’, telling the story of the fatherly love a middle-aged Afghan man has for a little Kolkata girl, will be made into a film again in Bengali after over ...

Shahidul Zahir was never a household name when it came to Bengali literature, but the English translation of a collection of his Bengali short stories, Why There are No Noyontara Flowers in Agargaon ...

The boatmen put up the sails of seven boats from the mahajan’s godown of garan wood at Shyamganj as soon as the tide ebbed in the river Hooghly. The mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters of thirty ...

In a refreshing move for television audiences, a renowned television channel is bringing to the screens the Hindi adaptation of the popular Bengali detective comedy ''Eken Babu'' for its viewers.