Atanu Biswas

November 4 marked the centenary of Ghatak, Indian cinema's rebel auteur. Along with Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen, he is often hailed as one of Bengali cinema's three maestros

Numerous Indian films and television series have featured Diwali over the years, many of which have also gained popularity outside India

Refusing to shake hands in public by top sportspersons - not for Covid-like precautions, but for other reasons - is a big statement and can cause a lot of social uproar

The engagement announcement came a few weeks after Swift's most in-depth interviews in years on Kelce's "New Heights" podcast, co-hosted by his brother, Jason

Bollywood has an obsession with remakes of cult films and blockbusters

From loyalty to murder - how Ray's stories foresaw the moral mess of AI long before it began to permeate our daily lives

Jesters of the past enjoyed immunity. Today's comedians navigate power, backlash, and blurred lines

Mr Musk is aware that the process of colonising Mars would involve a fleet of reusable spaceships, a substantial financial outlay that might never be recovered

Through history, the Mela has held different meanings for ascetics, the colonised, colonisers, and tourists-but all have been moved by its grandeur

Regardless of The Matrix, Nick Bostrom, Elon Musk, or the peculiarities of quantum physics, we might still be living in "base reality."

In any case, AIs are known to be biased, to have hallucinations, and to lack a sense of reality. A shade of uncertainty thus remains

It's evolved into cricket's new identity, a philosophy and mindset where it hardly matters who wins or loses

While the reading culture erodes and many books go unread, the passion for buying them remains unabated at fairs

The willingness to splurge on live entertainment is reshaping consumer behaviour

The AI-driven world may align more with the Keynesian hypothesis than Elon Musk's gloomy prophecy of no jobs

Can detective stories be a clever gateway to learning complex subjects? Two American professor show the way

The rapid evolution of AI in health care, resembling science fiction scenarios, presents new transformative potential and challenges

In the tercentenary of the father of economics, it is worth exploring the impact and relevance of his ideas on economics in today's world

One drawback of detective stories is that they could easily become period pieces when their style and underlying technologies become antiquated

Generative AI can create eye-catching images but also blur the line between what is true and what is not