He was to Satyajit Ray what Jean-Paul Belmondo was to Jean-Luc Godard (or the French New Wave) or Toshiro Mifune was to Akira Kurosawa. There must have been a good enough reason why Soumitra Chatterjee, who died due to COVID-19 on November 15, acted in 14 of Ray’s feature films – but then the 85-year-old colossus […]
Kolkata: It’s not easy to be in the shoes of Jeetu Kamal, who till the other day, was another promising actor in regional TV serials in Bengali being churned out dime-a-dozen in Kolkata. Come Friday, he will be under the scanner like never before as he plays Satyajit Ray, the film maestro in Aparajito (The Unvanquished) – […]
Dubai: After finishing the last season on a high, world No. 1 Rory McIlory is looking to continue from where he had left off in 2014. The best way, according to him, is to put himself in a position from where he can claim the elusive Abu Dhabi HSBC Championships — scheduled at the National […]
Back home in Tunisia, Ons Jabeur is referred to as ‘Wazeerat Al Sa’ada,’ which translates to ‘Minister of Happiness.’ It’s not difficult to see why as the 27-year-old feisty women’s tennis player has – in a giant leap over the past one year – become the most successful tennis player from the Arab world. Yes, […]
Kolkata: ‘‘We all need to see the films of Satyajit Ray and re-see them, again and again. Taken all together, they’re one of our greatest treasures.’’ Martin Scorsese ‘‘Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.’’ Akira Kurosawa One is an American master […]
Cape Town: Humility is a trait that comes naturally to the Japanese — even if one is a legendary chef and restaurateur like Nobuyuki Matsuhisa. Famous for his signature restaurant chain ‘Nobu’ all over the world, Matsuhisa remains a cult figure in the world of gourmet food for experimenting with traditional Japanese cuisine, thereby giving […]
Dubai: From a 22-year-old callow youth who set foot in Dubai 56 years back to a leading businessman and cricket connoisseur in the region, Shyam Bhatia’s journey has been rather well documented. While he is respected in the industry circles here as one of the major players in manufacturing and distribution of steel, most in […]
Kolkata: Their shadowy figures on motorbikes have become quite commonplace in the metropolis of Kolkata – and it’s suburbs – ever since the second wave of COVID-19 hit home sometime in early April. While one of them is riding the bike, the other is precariously balancing an Oxygen cylinder while riding pillion in the odd […]
It eventually took 75 years of Indian independence — not to speak of the 125th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose — one of the tallest leaders of the country’s freedom struggle to get his first statue in the country’s seat of power. Surely an anomaly, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to address […]
Dubai: The cliché ‘all good things must come to an end’ holds true especially in the case of sporting heroes. If one, however, is talking of Roger Federer — then his legion of fans hope that the Swiss master’s roadshow simply never ends. The talk at every Grand Slam, ever since Federer 3.0 emerged by […]
