Baramulla: Now streaming on Netflix
The movie revolves around DSP Ridwaan Sayyed (Manav Kaul), who is tasked with investigating a series of mysterious child disappearances in Baramulla, Kashmir.
The movie revolves around DSP Ridwaan Sayyed (Manav Kaul), who is tasked with investigating a series of mysterious child disappearances in Baramulla, Kashmir.
Today, one of my favorite articles, is from Krishnaraj Iyengar, who has written about happiness, or more specifically how Finland has been named the happiest country in the world second year in a row. What makes its people so happy? And what exactly is happiness?
A new coffee table book of black and white photographs, to be globally launched in October, captures underlying threads of unity in the seemingly disjointed and marginalized world in the outskirts of a city
Are all rebellions of the common individual worthy? What about when in that rebellion the common individual is pitted against the common individual?
Every monsoon, the town of Ghatal in West Midnapore district of West Bengal becomes an island in a sea of misery. For the 2.5 lakh people living here and in its surrounding blocks, the arrival of rain is not a season—it is a sentence.
Qissa of Bibi in Black Burqa and Forty Men, a novel by Sahitya Akademi winner Afsar Amed, translated from the original Bengali by Kathakali Jana, dares to dream in a language of magic, memory, and quiet rebellion.
Earlier this week, I watched the absolutely amazing, utterly understated Bengali film, “Apish….The Office”, directed by Sudeshna Roy and Abhijit Guha, the movie making duo who, going by their outstanding oeuvre over the years, have mastered the art of telling the subtle stories of everyday lives of everyday people without screaming from the rooftops.
Mullick family at the Marble Palace hosts a beautiful social conglomeration on the evening of Rathyatra and Ultorath Chittaranjan Avenue, which was originally called Central Avenue, is the lifeline of the northern part of the city of Kolkata and home to many fascinating tales of the nearly 350 year long existence of this east Indian metropolis.
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Saanya Bhandari Jain selected to join Dr. Sylvia Earle for a groundbreaking climate expedition
