These days, whenever my friends from other States or countries call me on my phone, the conversation usually reaches the point where they ask, “what the hell is happening in Tamil Nadu?” The tone is always mocking. This is even from friends who happen to live in Kolkata. I mean Kolkata is in West Bengal, right? Having been ruled by… Read more →
A forward-thinking, proactive legal measure to help curb the menace of ‘offending films’ even before they are made New Delhi, Nov 22: Finally some good seems to have emerged out of the fracas over Padmavati, a film so odious with offensive content that many people are able to outrage even without having seen it. Padmavati has been banned by a few States… Read more →
Rosogolla has, literally literally, become very difficult on the mouth. We mean it is no longer rosogolla but officially ‘Banglar Rasogolla’. It’s all because of the GI tag that has been conferred on it. Some of you may wonder why this new name for rosogolla, what is this GI tag, why is there a government department to handle such stuff… Read more →
India- Sri Lanka encounters have the record for the most bizarre records Chennai, Nov 16: The India – Sri Lanka cricket series … oh no! don’t sleep now itself. An India- Sri Lanka cricket series is supposed to have begun somewhere today, or at least that is what we are told. For all we know, it might be an ongoing… Read more →
After Kamal Haasan announced his political plans on his birthday earlier this week, you’d have thought that we in media would be debating whether someone, who so far has been solely focused on his film career, can make the cut in politics. Ha. Ha. Ha. Allow us to laugh in your face. We in the media have no longer the time for such… Read more →
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