On June 13, thirteen women activists were arrested in Kolkata for protesting against violence against women near the residence of the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. This is a first-person account of the day's events by one of them. "Women and girls in our state are facing terrible violence and many have been killed but that does not galvanise the police and administration of West Bengal into action. Activists...
12:06 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Dan Brown has been a favourite. I have read all his books and according to me, Digital Fortress and Angels & Demons are his best works so far. His latest release Inferno was one of the most anticipated books of 2013 and I was so looking forward to it. The book is based on Inferno, Dante Alighieri's description of journey through hell in his well-known work "The Divine Comedy". The...
06:06 PM, Jun 11, 2013
I am a sucker for travelogues. Though, I haven't read many books based on travel but I have read a lot of travelogues in the form of blogs, notes, tweets and team-bhp is one website where you find ample stories about people's travel experiences, their learning and you see different places through their eyes. Leh - Ladakh are few of the places that fascinate everyone. Almost everyone I know wants...
06:01 PM, Jun 11, 2013
Parthajeet Sarma's debut book, Smart Phones, Dumb People? has an interesting title for sure and I somehow agree with it. Phones are getting smarter by the day and people; well I would like to reserve my comments on that. The book's blurb was interesting and I thought I should give it a try. There are very less people who look at the root cause of a problem and the blurb...
05:54 PM, Jun 11, 2013
Jacob Hills - Ismita Tandon Dhankher Ismita contacted me over e-mail some time back and asked me if I would be interested in reading and reviewing her upcoming book, Jacob Hills. After reading the blurb, I thought it is going to be one bizarre story and it actually turned out to be one although not in a bad way. I liked reading it. Though, I don't know if some of...
05:48 PM, Jun 11, 2013
We all know the condition of women in India but did you know that in some other parts of the world, the condition is much worse than it is here? Not drawing comparisons here but this is a fact and you will know this when you read the book, In The Body Of The World by Eve Ensler. The kind of things Eve has revealed about the condition of women...
05:43 PM, Jun 11, 2013
Imagine my surprise or rather shock when I first got to know that Chetan Bhagat's has a brother named Ketan and that he too was coming out with his book. I thought to myself, "perfect, just what we readers need, more of Chetan Bhagat-esque literature. Even though I had no clue what the book is going to be all about but I was certain that it was going to be...
03:51 PM, Jun 11, 2013
This week on WorldView: Turkey erupts in protests - what sparked the latest Arab street uprising? And PM Nawaz Sharif's uphill battle on ties with India - an exclusive interview with Pakistan's former Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar. ...
02:21 PM, Jun 07, 2013
CNN-IBN National Affairs Editor Bhupendra Chaubey says from now till general elections, the entire political discourse will revolve around Narendra Modi. ...
02:04 PM, Jun 05, 2013
This year on World Environment Day , we take you to a journey to one of world's most pristine but endangered ecological hotspots - the Western Ghats. IBNLive.com/westernghats ...
12:40 PM, Jun 05, 2013
CNN-IBN's Amrita Tripathi talks about the growing number of suicides and the medical help available for mental health in India. ...
02:16 PM, Jun 04, 2013
The Naxals were particularly looking for Mahendra Karma to kill him says CNN-IBN Correspondent Arunima who covered the recent Chhattisgarh attack. ...
02:34 PM, Jun 03, 2013
CNN-IBN's National Affairs Editor Bhupendra Chaubey on PM Manmohan Singh's statement on the IPL spot-fixing controversy. ...
07:06 PM, May 31, 2013
IBN-18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai talks about the crisis in BCCI after the spot-fixing allegations and the media reportage of the issue. ...
11:30 AM, May 31, 2013
Well before he became a world-renowned filmmaker, Rituparno Ghosh was a genius in the advertising industry. He first made news in the mid-1980s. At Ogilvy and Mather, where I worked, we heard of this brilliant copywriter at Ram Ray's Response. He was not just translating English-language ads to Bengali but actually creating original lines, thoughts and campaigns. We approached him for the Sharad Shamman campaign, now institutionalised as Calcutta's uber...
09:59 AM, May 31, 2013
