Your family is supposed to be the safest, most loving place in the world – but what happens if your family means sadness, jealousy, frustration, greed, anger, betrayal or any other disappointments? Mostly, immaterial of your age, you turn to friends and before you know it, they become your adopted family. Those facing daily hostility […]
I had a very dear Bengali friend in my class at St. Anne’s High School – Rupa Ganguly, daughter of the late veteran actor, Ashok Kumar and wife of actor Deven Verma. I think of Rupa every year on Dassera because once she had told me (in Std. VIII) that when you look into Goddess […]
England lost many of its early actors to Hollywood. The likes of Charlie Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Charles Laughton and Cary Grant and many others all found more scope and richer pastures in Hollywood. British actresses have also supplied Hollywood with an abundance of talent, notably Deborah Kerr and Vivien Leigh. But the most acclaimed and […]