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The many journeys of
Kamala Das

Life has turned full circle for her as she returns to being Kamala Das and writing poetry, her first love. The aliases she had nursed and nurtured like Madhavi Kutty and Kamala Suraiyya were cast away at one fell swoop once Kamala Das made Pune her new home. M.S. Unnikrishnan catches up with the author, a rebel without a pause

Adventure in Chambal
The terrain in Rajasthan is tailor-made for most adventure sports, reports Chandan Sen
It is well known that the state of Rajasthan beckons tourists with its heritage and picturesque landscape but that the diverse terrain also provides a fertile ground for adventure tourism is something that is being recognised recently.

Bowled over by Siraj Bagh
When you visit the picturesque Kashmir Valley in spring, do not miss the opportunity to tour Siraj Bagh garden overlooking the Dal Lake, writes Ehsan Fazili
The garden shot into the limelight for the first time in last April for being the only garden with such a large number of tulips in Kashmir. Thousands of local as well as domestic tourists visited the garden last summer. It is spread over 700 kanals and located between between Harwan-Shalimar and Nishat-Chashmeshahi.

Night of The Departed
The 79th Academy Awards by and large went according to script, writes Vikramdeep Johal
This year’s Oscars virtually boiled down to just one award. The million-dollar question was: Would six-time nominated director Martin Scorsese finally win the elusive statuette? As expected, he did, for his multi-starrer crime thriller The Departed. Nobody — be it the film community, the media or the movie-going public — would have forgiven the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had they voted against the 64-year-old maestro.

Cinema with a purpose
The sixth international Social Communication Cinema Conference, which was held in Kolkata from February 15 to 21, went beyond escapist entertainment, reports Shoma A. Chatterji
A popular, but badly made soap called Be Zubaan (The Folly of Living in the Past) from Pakistan, an amateurish Beyond Love from Vietnam, or Tsha Tsha from South Africa occupied major space in Roop Kala Kendro’s 6th Social Communication Cinema Conference last week.