by Monojit Lahiri Phew! From “Thank God you’re not one of those small-town, Vernac types, dear boy” to “Oye angrez, Hindi aati hai?”…we’ve indeed come a long way, baby! But to begin at the beginning…it was a completely different planet, the India and Kolkata of the early seventies and a totally different adspace too….
LOOKING FOR SOMETHING EYE-POPPING? PRESENTING DEAD BLONDE ROCKING!! by Monojit Lahiri Advertising is the art of seducing and enticing the unguarded to buy products & services that sell images & dreams, aspirations, hopes & desires … Today, more than ever in a hugely competitive market where consumers are spoilt for choices, the challenge for the…
by Avijit Dutt The most telling image is of this towering intellectual holding up a poster of him being an Urban Naxal too! Protesting the arrests of the innocent Social workers and intellectuals. At the meeting pushing for an enquiry after Gauri Lankesh’s murder he looked more saddened by the circumstances than his own state…
Rai Praveen. A royal tale is seldom without a love story. Anarkali and Salim, since immortalised on celluloid by K Asif’s Mughal-e-Azam, something like that. So, why should Orchha be any different? A small little town tucked away amidst the sprawling wilderness of Bundelkhand, Orchha was once a princely-state. While now dwarfed magnificently by the…
Was he the poet Tagore had been waiting for? No idea, although Subhas, like him, posited his faith in man, especially those who constituted the majority…hapeless, homeless, landless, jobless and oppressed always.