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RAINOFFANDON
By Kohinoor Dasgupta Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (The Early Years) is a novel that connects the Nobel Prize-winning...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Jun 18
- 5 min
Leopold is born
By Kohinoor Dasgupta Elizabeth Bowen’s The House in Paris was published in 1935, when she was thirty-six. It is an energetic and...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- May 11
- 7 min
'A World of Love' by Elizabeth Bowen
A beautiful young woman reading a letter at the foot of an unlikely obelisk is the beginning of neither a romance nor a comedy.
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Apr 25
- 6 min
'The Republic' by Joost de Vries
Who is he when he is "Philip de Vries”? Not the real Friso?
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Apr 11
- 3 min
Jon Fosse's 'Morning and Evening'
On the mainland, maybe on this very day, dark and wintry, Olai’s father Johannes feels unusually vigorous.
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Mar 7
- 6 min
'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' by Charles Dickens
There are no sanctuaries, and no one is safe around the Cathedral where John Jasper leads the choir.
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Feb 21
- 4 min
'Anil’s Ghost' by Michael Ondaatje
If you think the rest of the novel is about making an identification and thus drawing retribution from the government, you would be wrong.
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Feb 11
- 9 min
HOLDING ON TO NOTHING: 'SEPTOLOGY' BY JON FOSSE
However, we eventually find out that the painting is no different from Asle's powerful abstract work.
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Feb 10
- 4 min
Ek mutho jolshar kolorob: In memory of Pulak Bandyopadhyay (May 1931 - September 7, 1999)
Words were in short supply in the suicide note he left behind.
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Jan 29
- 8 min
POPLARHAVEN
He had looked ahead to this day and thrown away nothing!
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Dec 21, 2023
- 10 min
MADAN MOHAN PART V
FROM HEER RANJHA TO MAUSAM By Kohinoor Dasgupta Yeh duniya, yeh mehfil / Mohammed Rafi Chetan Anand’s musical Heer Ranjha (1970) dealt...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Dec 19, 2023
- 6 min
MADAN MOHAN PART IV
FROM EK KALI MUSKAYI TO DASTAK By Kohinoor Dasgupta Na tum bewafa ho / Lata Mangeshkar Madan Mohan’s music was sensitive. I am using the...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Dec 18, 2023
- 15 min
MADAN MOHAN PART III
FROM WOH KAUN THI TO NAUNIHAL By Kohinoor Dasgupta Naina barse / Lata Mageshkar Lag jaa gale / Lata Mangeshkar Shokh nazar ki bijliyan/...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Dec 16, 2023
- 7 min
MADAN MOHAN PART II
FROM KHOTA PAISA TO AKELI MAT JAIYO By Kohinoor Dasgupta This phase gave us a composer who had earned a degree of freedom to influence...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Dec 15, 2023
- 16 min
MADAN MOHAN PART I
FROM ANKHEN TO JAILOR By Kohinoor Dasgupta HINDI films of the last century often had a scene or two at a railway station or on board a...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Nov 30, 2023
- 4 min
Not. Guilty.
If he pulled off the steal, he would be doing posterity a favor, Figueras rationalizes to Berenice later.
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Oct 24, 2023
- 9 min
Crooked shadows: 'Snow' by Orhan Pamuk
By Kohinoor Dasgupta Snow, by Orhan Pamuk, was originally published in Turkey as Kar by İletişm, Istanbul in 2002. It was a national...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Oct 11, 2023
- 7 min
SAVE THE SILVER! 'NOSTROMO'
By Kohinoor Dasgupta When published in 1905, Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard may well have been a page-turner. In 2023, when more than a...
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