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MADAN MOHAN PART IV
FROM EK KALI MUSKAYI TO DASTAK Madan Mohan & the performers By Kohinoor Dasgupta Na tum bewafa ho / Lata Mangeshkar Madan Mohan’s music...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Dec 19, 20236 min read
MADAN MOHAN PART III
FROM WOH KAUN THI TO NAUNIHAL Madan Mohan and the performers By Kohinoor Dasgupta Naina barse / Lata Mageshkar Lag jaa gale / Lata...
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
MADAN MOHAN PART I
FROM ANKHEN TO JAILOR Madan Mohan & the performers By Kohinoor Dasgupta HINDI films of the last century often had a scene or two at a...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Dec 15, 202317 min read
Not. Guilty.
If he pulled off the steal, he would be doing posterity a favor, Figueras rationalizes to Berenice later.
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Nov 30, 20234 min read
Crooked shadows: 'Snow' by Orhan Pamuk
By Kohinoor Dasgupta 'Snow' by Orhan Pamuk Snow , by Orhan Pamuk, was originally published in Turkey as Kar by İletişm, Istanbul in...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Oct 24, 20239 min read
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...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Oct 11, 20237 min read
BEHIND THE INSTAGRAM PHOTOS 'Look For Me There/ Grieving My Father, Finding Myself'
By Kohinoor Dasgupta Luke Russert tells a difficult story through his travel diary, Look For Me There/ Grieving My Father, Finding...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Aug 8, 20233 min read
THE MUSICAL WORLD OF CHHAYA GANGULI
There was a buzz about Ganguli after Gaman.
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jul 25, 202314 min read
YOU GET THE PICTURE: 'The Making of Another Major Motion Picture’
Fleetingly, I missed enfant terrible OKB wearing Aviator shades.
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jul 12, 20233 min read
A PERSONAL MATTER
Japanese Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oë died on March 3, 2023. He was eighty-eight years old. Oë tasted literary success when he was...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Jun 1, 20235 min read
'The Years' by Annie Ernaux
A treasure of a book, a herstory that we longed to read, full of humility and strength at the same time.
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Apr 25, 20233 min read
WILLA CATHER'S 'MY ÁNTONIA'
By Kohinoor Dasgupta My Ántonia was published in 1918. A kid loses both his parents within the year and, one pitch-dark Plains night in...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Mar 22, 20234 min read
SALMAN RUSHDIE'S 'VICTORY CITY'
By Kohinoor Dasgupta Mr. Rushdie’s new novel, Victory City , was published by Random House in 2023. From David Remnick’s article in The...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
Mar 16, 20235 min read
Formerly: The Times of India Author of 'Mud in the River'
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