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SATYAGRAHI
By Kohinoor Dasgupta Gandhi The Years That Changed the World (2018), by Ramachandra Guha, is for everyone interested in Mohandas...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jan 30, 202315 min read


"Radishes are genius"
By Kohinoor Dasgupta (Originally published on August 8, 2011, in my blog Draupadiarjun) The director of Still Walking (Aruitemo aruitemo...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jan 14, 20235 min read


Out of Prison
By Kohinoor Dasgupta (Originally published on May 22, 2011, in my weblog Draupadiarjun) (The review contains spoilers) THIS FRENCH FILM...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jan 14, 20234 min read


Echoes in Empty Rooms
By Kohinoor Dasgupta ( Originally published in 2011 in my blog Draupadiarjun) Johan Theorin’s second book, The Darkest Room (2009), was...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jan 14, 20232 min read


"Keep the obsequy so strict”
By Kohinoor Dasgupta (originally published on July 20, 2010 in my weblog Draupadiarjun) Departures (2008), a Japanese film directed by...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jan 14, 20233 min read
WHOSE POLTERGEIST?
By Kohinoor Dasgupta (Originally published on May 26, 2011 in my blog Draupadiarjun) (This review contains spoilers) The Little Stranger...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jan 14, 20235 min read
The Unreal World of Cassie Maddox
The characters on whom she trains her torch are caught skittering in the dark woods.
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jan 14, 20233 min read


Still East of Eden
By Kohinoor Dasgupta (Originally published on October 28, 2010, in my blog Draupadiarjun) Lots of material may be found if you do a...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jan 14, 20234 min read


GOOD LIVES
By Kohinoor Dasgupta (Originally published on May 13, 2011 in my weblog Draupadiarjun) Letters to Father Jacob ( Postia Pappi Jaakobille...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jan 13, 20234 min read


'Throw Down Your Heart'
By Kohinoor Dasgupta (Originally published on July 31, 2010, in my weblog Draupadiarjun) AMERICAN BANJO player Béla Fleck loves jamming...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jan 13, 20234 min read


LAWS AND PRISONERS
By Kohinoor Dasgupta (Originally published on March 8, 2011 in my weblog Draupadiarjun) 'RESURRECTION' was Leo Tolstoy’s last novel,...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jan 13, 20237 min read


SHILLONG, SO LONG!
By Kohinoor Dasgupta (About Rabindranath Tagore’s Shesher Kobita (Closing Poems); originally published on May 2, 2011, in my blog...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jan 12, 20238 min read
“Let love remain that little while”
By Kohinoor Dasgupta (originally published on September 13, 2011 in my blog Draupadiarjun) TWO SINGLES cause dilemmas of attraction in An...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jan 12, 20235 min read


DISH, WASHER
(Originally published on July 15, 2011, in my blog Draupadiarjun) The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine , originally published in...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jan 12, 20233 min read


IVORY AUTUMN
By Kohinoor Dasgupta (Review of Quartet in Autumn , originally published on September 16, 2010 in my blog draupadiarjun) Barbara Pym’s...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jan 12, 20233 min read


Fall into Grace
By Kohinoor Dasgupta (A review of Pranzo di Ferragosto (2008) originally published on January 4, 2011 in my blog draupadiarjun) Pranzo...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jan 11, 20233 min read


SILENT WINTER
By Kohinoor Dasgupta Winter’s Bone (2010), originally reviewed in my blog Draupadiarjun on February 25, 2011 The Death of Sweet Mister ...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jan 11, 20235 min read


WHAT MARIA SAW
Maria Larsson’s Eviga Ӧgonblick /Everlasting Moments (Originally published in my blog Draupadiarjun on October 15, 2010) On her upturned...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jan 10, 20233 min read


Single, Singular
By Kohinoor Dasgupta Barbara Pym’s The Sweet Dove Died (Originally published in my weblog Draupadiarjun on November 1, 2010) Towards the...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jan 10, 20232 min read
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