Bengali
Mrs Sen and I
Gouri Chatterjee
Suchitra Sen signified the acme of modernity to the Bengali middle-class of the 1950s and 1960s playing characters who speak English with apparent ease, wear chic clothes, and have careers which they usually choose to put on hold. She was not an actress; her greatest performance was in playing herself: Suchitra Sen, the luminous superstar. And with her reclusiveness, she cannily created a legend of herself
City of Irritable Ghosts
Anik Datta’s satire Bhooter Bhobishyot is a worthy cinematic tribute to Kolkata, far better textured than the Kahaani brand of nostalgic love
Don Quixote Gallops to Bengal
A professor tilts his pen at libraries here and abroad to put back on the shelf a contemporary version of a Spanish classic in Bengali
The World Comes to Sankar
At 75, a Bengali writer who loves to claim his books have never travelled beyond Burdwan grabs international attention
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