75 years ago on November 19, a genius named Salil Chowdhury was born in village Gajipur in West Bengal. His second son, Sanjoy, today’s busiest background music composer, remembers the dad with whom he also shares his birth-date “To call my ...

20 Nov 2008

After receiving an offer from Bimal Roy, to compose music for Do Bigha Zameen, he moved to Bombay in 1953. Raj Kapoors Jaagte Raho and Bimal Roys Madhumati soon followed. He gained instant recognition for the melody component and his unique musical ...

18 Nov 2008

New Delhi, Nov 5: India, the world's largest democracy, joined the world Wednesday to welcome the historic victory of Barack Obama as the 44th US president, the first African-American to rise to the powerful post. Political and business leaders ...

5 Nov 2008

Debojit Saha answers,  In the beginning I enjoyed. I met new people, which I liked. Later as people got evicted I became lonely. I didn't know that games were played right from the beginning. A lot of thing happened behind my back. I was offered ...

3 Nov 2008

I hate to use the "S" word, but the American government would never do something as, well, socialist as seize private pension funds, right? This is exactly what cash-strapped Argentina just did in the name of protecting workers' retirement accounts ...

22 Oct 2008

MBABANE (Reuters) - An emergency summit to try to end a deadlock in the formation of a unity government in Zimbabwe has been postponed until Oct. 27, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) said on Monday. The 15-nation regional body ...

19 Oct 2008