Sumit Bhattacharya In Kolkata

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10 things we know from 'ArnabGate'
Rediff.com20 Jan 2021

Sumit Bhattacharya lists what the leaked WhatsApp conversations reveal about the man...

Tigers in high mountains, tanks in snow
Rediff.com15 Jan 2021

Like millions of people across the world, the year 2020 had dealt me irreplaceable...

What India loses when journalists lose jobs
Rediff.com9 Dec 2020

When journalism is destroyed, what is destroyed is a common man's weapon against the...

Soumitra Chatterjee and the inheritance of loss
Rediff.com17 Nov 2020

The passing of Satyajit Ray's renaissance man feels like the snapping of the last...

Rhea Chakraborty and India's drug of choice
Rediff.com9 Sep 2020

The hounding of Rhea Chakraborty in the Sushant Singh Rajput case is a drug that is...

An Indian legend you probably don't know about
Rediff.com6 Sep 2020

In a corner of Kolkata lived a man who made Latin American music cool before urban...

GDP shrinks, pandemic 'act of god' saves Modi govt
Rediff.com1 Sep 2020

Even in this darkest hour of a crumbling economy and raging disease, there is hardly a...

Modi, mines, viprit buddhi
Rediff.com29 Jun 2020

Yes, India needs desperate measures to kick-start growth. But selling off its lungs to...

Lockdown lessons: How to be atmanirbhar with nishtha
Rediff.com12 Jun 2020

One India is doing great against the coronavirus, lauding the gains of the lockdown and...

The tragedy of being Irom Sharmila
Rediff.com9 Aug 2016

On the occasion of her breaking the world's longest hunger strike, Rediff.com...

From Rediff archives: Netaji did not die in air crash, says web site
Rediff.com10 Apr 2015

As two recently declassified Intelligence Bureau reveal that the Jawaharlal Nehru...

Why India should be worried even though tiger numbers are up
Rediff.com22 Jan 2015

'We are rushing to 'develop' without carefully valuing natural areas.' 'With careful...

Kolkata horror: Students protesting sexual assault beaten up, arrested
Rediff.com17 Sep 2014

Jadavpur University students, who were beaten up and arrested for protesting against...

Varanasi vignettes: Modi, Modi everywhere
Rediff.com24 Apr 2014

Sumit Bhattacharya paradrops into the eastern Uttar Pradesh temple city to find it...

Why no law against rape will work
Rediff.com31 Dec 2012

There are at least two reasons why no anti-sexual violence law, however stringent, will...

Sherlock Holmes and the tragedy of Feluda
Rediff.com12 Jan 2012

The contrast in the fates of Arthur Conan Doyle's and Satyajit Ray's super sleuths is a...

Imphal blast: Dead rickshaw puller points to Kangleipak Communist
Rediff.com30 Nov 2011

A bomb went off at the Sangai festival in Imphal, Manipur, on Wednesday morning, just...

Review: Rockstar is more Devdas than Jim Morrison
Rediff.com11 Nov 2011

The film tries to pose as an insight into an artiste's anguish, when it's just a...

It can only happen in Mumbai
Rediff.com14 Jul 2011

Yes, Mumbai has been sucker punched again. As much by its own as by the bastards who...

Review: Go watch the last Harry Potter movie!
Rediff.com12 Jul 2011

Deathly Hallows is a lavish film with lots of winning elements.