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It appears that the golden era of Bollywood (60’s) is in the air. The passing of legendary ‘regional’ global filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh yesterday morning at his  Indrani Park, Anwar Shah Road, a South Calcutta residence has and will leave a void in expressive cinema.  Cine lovers, the LGBT’s, silent admirers like me (I’me sure there are bigger fans too). BLACKJACK- 21/21  21 movies in hindi and Bengali in 21 years (Hirer Angti (The Diamond Ring) - 1992 to Chitrangada in 2012), this technically translates into one movie in a year. Quite a quality, what I am looking forward to see is Satyanweshi and another hindi film called Sunglass- it never got released and was produced by Arindam Chowdhuri’s Planman in 2008. Twitter was buzzing whole day yesterday and he made Kahaani director Sujoy Ghosh, to act in his upcoming crime thriller Satyanweshi . The talented director and now actor (only for this film) tweeted, sujoy ghosh ‏@sujoy_g 2h “rituparno ghosh had about ...

With one of the key themes, being "Preserving the Integrity of Sport"- in light of 1) values of sport 2) fight against match fixing 3) doping and 4) corruption in sport, the, the fifth UNESCO World Sport Ministers Conference began in Berlin starting 28 - 30 May 2013.  The programme is jointly organised by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, UNESCO and the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education. Other agenda would be a) implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities b) to encourage more girls and women to participate in sport. c) Investment opportunity in sports/physical education also to encourage discussing standards for large-scale sporting events. "I am delighted that we won the bid to host the World Sport Ministers Conference next year," said Federal Minister of the Interior Hans-Peter Friedrich.   The Federal Ministry of the Interior will convene national working groups made up of e...

Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels - DO