Deepika Padukone was recently photographed outside Dinesh Vijan’s Maddock Films office, sparking speculation about a possible ...
The three-day Bengali literary festival hosted by Tanmoy Roychowdhury saw Mir Afsar Ali, Indranil Sanyal, Dwaita Hazra Goswami, and Aparajita Dasgupta as speakers for the session on “Mysteries have ...
The city witnessed a Halloween festival like never before, as Nandan and its surroundings transformed into a thrilling world of ghosts, ghouls, and folklore creatures. Hosted by Spondon, the festival ...
Donald Trump’s termination of trade talks with Canada over a Ronald Reagan-inspired ad highlights a clash of policies and historical interpretations.
Bhoot Chaturdashi, observed a day before Kali Puja, is a night deeply rooted in Bengali folklore and superstition. It is believed that spirits walk the Earth as families light 14 lamps to ward off ...
In 1940, Rabindranath Tagore wrote about his childhood companion – a Brahmadaitya, a saintly Brahmin ghost who lived peacefully in a nut tree at the family’s Jorasanko mansion. This benevolent spirit ...
Remember nearly headless Nick from Harry Potter, the Bengali version is a Skondhokata, usually roaming around asking people for its missing head! Pexels Keep your blood safe because the Rakht ...
Observed in Bengali households the night before fervent blaze of Kali Puja, Bhoot Chaturdashi has an unmatched gravitas. Often misunderstood as merely a night of ghosts, it is in truth a sacred pause.
When Emmy-winning filmmaker James A. Castillo (Madrid Noir) set out to make The Quinta’s Ghost, he wasn’t adapting a historical anecdote. He was stepping into the mind of Francisco de Goya, trying to ...
The Swedish hard-rock band GHOST appeared on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” last month. When the group formed, in Linköping, in 2006, its members were anonymous, and their devotion to Satan was ...