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Music album pays centenary tribute to Bimal Roy Saregama's launch of the music album Remembering Bimal Roy.

Like many others, Buddhadeb had wished that Ali Akbar would be brought back to India and laid to rest next to Baba, at Maihar.

Precisely 10 years ago, Punjabi litterateur Ajeet Cour invited Nabendu Ghosh to Delhi for a reading at her Academy of Fine Arts and Literature.

The fifth day of the 13th Coal India Kolkata Literary Meet offered a mix of literature, music, and historical discussions. Highlights included sessions on classical and contemporary literature, gender perspectives in storytelling, and cultural dialogues featuring notable authors like Devdutt Pattanaik, William Dalrymple, and Upamanyu Chatterjee.

Ganesh Pyne was one of the most amazing painters of our time.

'That Bird Called Happiness' is a collection of his nine stories, which were originally written in Bangla.

What lies beyond Boston and Bengal? Jhumpa Lahiri will say, beyond the first one, lies a bagful of green backs called Pulitzer. And in the second place? It's biye bari (nuptial knot). When she sat down to pen The Interpreter of Maladies, the 33-year-old NRI couldn't have guessed what the god of big things like Bookers and Pulitzers had in store for her. She, after all, had only heard of six-figure advances; what she'd seen was a handful of rejection letters, politely worded as ``Come back when you write a novel.'' Well, the interpreter of men and women who straddled two worlds named Boston and Bengal had a half smile when critics discovered in the ``uncommon elegance'' of her short stories a new Maupassant or O'Henry.

What lies beyond Boston and Bengal? Jhumpa Lahiri will say, beyond the first one, lies a bagful of green backs called Pulitzer. And in the second place? It's biye bari (nuptial knot). When she sat down to pen The Interpreter of Maladies, the 33-year-old NRI couldn't have guessed what the god of big things like Bookers and Pulitzers had in store for her. She, after all, had only heard of six-figure advances; what she'd seen was a handful of rejection letters, politely worded as ``Come back when you write a novel.'' Well, the interpreter of men and women who straddled two worlds named Boston and Bengal had a half smile when critics discovered in the ``uncommon elegance'' of her short stories a new Maupassant or O'Henry.

For the art scene, 2000 was the year of Satish Gujral. Not because the painter-architect turned 75 on Christmas day. But because of a birthday bash that began one Sunday - with a toast at the Belgian embassy, which he has designed - and continued till the next Sunday - at his own house, also self-designed. What do you say about a party that brings together the ambassadors of Britain and Germany, America and Argentina, Turkey and Cyprus, Portugal and Pakistan, Denmark and Sweden, France and - of course! - Belgium? Only this: ``Peace on earth,'' which is what the vice president of India quipped

The Times of India once again brought India on the world map by being the first daily English broadsheet to be dipped in colour from January18, 2003.

The I&B ministry is planning to challenge the Bombay HC order that directed the DFF to allow the entry of films without censor certificates for national awards.