Veteran actress Anjana Bhowmik died in the early hours of Saturday at a South Kolkata hospital. She was 79. The actress had been battling respiratory issues and was admitted to the hospital on Friday ...

These books on Sankar’s desk are all copies of Chowringhee — Chinese, Spanish, French, Italian, Penguin Classic, British editions, Hindi and Bengali. Picture by Rashbehari Das Truth be told, ...

The characters in the novel include Marco Polo, the imposing hotel manager who is a Greek orphan raised by Italian priests. There is the Anglicised receptionist Sata Bose and airhostess Sujata Mitra, ...

Renowned lyricist Miltu Ghosh, known for his work in the film 'Chowringhee', passed away due to age-related illness. The film featured legendary actors and the famous song 'Boro Eka Lage', sung by ...

After the success of 'Mishawr Rawhoshyo' (2013) and 'Jaatishwar' (2014), Swastika Mukherjee is likely to reunite with director Srijit Mukherji for the third time. Rumour has it that Srijit recently ...

The mobile phone that doubles as his landline kept ringing in novelist Mani Sankar Mukherjee aka Sankar's first floor flat overlooking the busy Bondel Road, once an industrial suburb of the megacity ...

Jouncing in hand pulled rickshaws to school, cradling a depressed and dying brother in a home for the aged, laying flowers on the grave of a lover long departed. Such identical days blur the calendar ...

Bengali readers have treasured “Chowringhee” since it was published in 1962. In this golden age of the Indian novel, it has finally been translated into English. While Sankar (full name: Mani Sankar ...

Near the end of Chowringhee, we hear a yarn from the old-timer Hobbs. This grizzled veteran of the Raj has memories of a Calcutta grand hotel, the Shahjahan - the story-stuffed centre of this banquet ...