There was once a rebel poet-singer who modelled himself on the traditions of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and early Dylan. He sang songs that cut through the baggage of Bengali music that had stagnated for over two decades. He sang songs of protests, of frank love, of yearning, of rage and of revolution. He sang songs of the man on the street and his life. His voice and lyrics reminded us of the best traditions of Bengali music –...

I am enjoying the IPL…it make the game fast and exciting and completely in sync with our demands on time…and in the final analysis, I believe that the T-20 gives cricket a fighting chance against other sports that are competing for our eyeball and attention – F1 and football mainly and which were slowly gaining ground. Cricket needed to move away from the leisurely gentleman game that the purists keep raving about and move towards...

The recent conviction of the four co-founders of Pirate Bay has once again thrown open the question of whether mere conviction of individual companies will stop the idea of file-sharing and raises the more serious question of whether the music companies and the musicians supporting them are like ostriches burying their heads in the burning sand that would probably end up burning them… If past is something that we should ideally be...

After  the storm – the debris… Slumdog Millionaire was one such storm to hit the Indian storm…we will be picking its debris for some time to come… An example of this is the sordid drama being played out with Child star Rubina’s father allegedly trying to sell her off… Denials and counter-denials are going to be thrown back and forth for some time to come till the media attention drifts…but one thing is for sure…there...

Tehelka published a an interview that was taken with a Naxal commander from the forests of Bijapur… It makes for chilling reading… With anyone following the developments in Pakistan, the words spoken by the ‘commander’ seem to have a chilling reflection of the words spoken by the Taliban across the border – the same self-serving statements about representing the people and of a fight against a corrupt and immoral system without...