top of page
RAINOFFANDON


PAST IS PRESENT
By Kohinoor Dasgupta The Bengali-language non-fiction book Puratani/Gyanodanandini Devi , now in its fifth reprint, was published in...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Nov 15, 202412 min read


Keepers of secrets
By Kohinoor Dasgupta Han Kang’s memorable novel about the Gwangju Uprising of May 1980 was published in Korean as The Boy Is Coming in...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Oct 27, 20247 min read


The Listeners
By Kohinoor Dasgupta Greek Lessons is a 2011 novel by Han Kang, the Korean author who is the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize for...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Oct 22, 20246 min read


Lucy & her Florentine muddle
By Kohinoor Dasgupta The long life of the Merchant Ivory adaptation of A Room with a View (1986) makes one unsure about the historical...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Sep 30, 202411 min read


CHARM, SMARM, HARM
By Kohinoor Dasgupta Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (The Early Years) is a novel that connects the Nobel Prize-winning...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Aug 6, 202414 min read


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
Jun 18, 20245 min read


'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
May 11, 20247 min read


'The Republic' by Joost de Vries
Who is he when he is "Philip de Vries”? Not the real Friso?
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Apr 25, 20246 min read


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
Apr 11, 20244 min read


'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
Mar 7, 20246 min read


'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 21, 20244 min read


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 11, 20249 min read
"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
Feb 10, 20244 min read


POPLARHAVEN
He had looked ahead to this day and thrown away nothing!
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jan 29, 20248 min read




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 21, 202310 min read


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 19, 20236 min read


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 18, 202315 min read


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 16, 20238 min read
Written by a real person Formerly: The Times of India. Bylines in Femina, The Economic Times, Bangalore, Sify Entertainment, etc.
bottom of page