March 9, 2016
A fully filmy love story by Kalpa
Kalpa Jyoti happens to be my childhood friend and I was very happy when he announced to me that he…
Category: CULTURE
February 5, 2016
Bike Story – Tales of Love connected by one thread
Bike Story is a short film directed by a talented young man Priyanku Baruah and it tells three love stories…
January 20, 2016
Pramathesh Barua: A Forgotten Hero of Indian Cinema
Acclaimed as one of the greatest directors of Indian cinema, this man from Gauripur, Dhubri, Assam is still highly under-rated…
December 22, 2015
Tamasha doesn’t underestimate audience
By Ankita Sarkar Present scene. Cut to flashback. Cut to Future. Cut to Present. This was ‘Tamasha’ for certain…
November 28, 2015
Ankush Saikia brings a fresh perspective on how to write a murder mystery
The last three novels by Ankush Saikia is kind of noir and have detective background. The Girl from Nongrim Hills was…
November 22, 2015
X Past is Present, a review | An experiment at best |
11 chefs set out on a unique cooking experiment. Do the manage to get the X factor in X Past is Present? One…
November 17, 2015
Like Smoke : Paro Anand is the wild child of the story telling world
I don’t know, why I haven’t read Paro Anand before. This book is a collection of young adult fiction short…
November 13, 2015
Review: Prem Ratan Dhan Payo |Experiencing Salmantertainment! |
I watched Prem Ratan Dhan Payo. Or should I say I witnessed a Salman Khan film. I had decided to…
October 22, 2015
Movie Review: Shaandaar | Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt |
What do you get expect when the director of Queen and Chillar Party makes his next? Let’s make it more…
October 3, 2015
Who Will Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
It’s October, and it’s not just the perfect weather to read great books but it’s also the time for the…
October 2, 2015
Movie Review: Singh is Bliing | Uh-so-duh |
Somewhere in Singh in Bliing Prabhudheva appears out of nowhere in a toilet. He pisses on Akshay Kumar – his…
October 1, 2015
Prem Ratan Dhan Payo Official Trailer | Salman Khan & Sonam Kapoor | Sooraj Barjatya | Diwali 2015
The much-awaited trailer of the Salman Khan-starrer film Prem Ratan Dhan Payo has finally been released officially. The trailer was…
September 24, 2015
Sufism to me is like zindagi – Kailash Kher | Interview
Kailash Kher and Sufi music are synonymous with each other. Kher seems to be an ideal name composers look up…
September 12, 2015
Modi’s cultural revolution: Exciting days ahead
[This is a piece of satire and should be considered as one. The writer is a senior journalist based in Assam.]…
September 7, 2015
Murder in Bollywood is a highly original pulp fiction
Pulp fiction is a rarity in Indian English writing scene and only few of them manage to deliver a decent…