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The great maestro's centenary has finally arrived. As a longtime Ray aficionado I had to contribute something to this. Having watched his films multiple times and read several scholarly works on his …

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I remember as a young boy often cycling to a library in Bhopal, adjacent to which was a small hospital called Katju Hospital. The name did not mean anything to me, as also to most others, until upon …

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Pandit Dwarka Prasad Mishra was a titanic figure who served as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh from 1963 to 1967. Born in 1901 he joined the freedom movement as a student and served a jail term …

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I Not too many persons these days have heard of the genius of Dilipkumar Roy - a great singer, songwriter, composer, musicologist, biographer and playwright who was a giant of the artistic and …

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I had meant to write about Harin-babu (Harindranath Chattopadhyay) for a long time. He was a polymath, a true renaissance man, who certainly deserves to be much better known. Variously talented – a …

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