The year saw cinema that portends something novel for Bengal. It portends something new and at the same time recalls a bygone era of Bengali cinema.

BY Rochona Majumdar 29 December 2013

It is time for “Indian” women to step out as a bloc that demands certain rights for the entirety of the female population in the country. Failure to deliver should hold the threat of being toppled at the polls.

BY Rochona Majumdar 1 September 2013

So the ruling CPI(M) government and party have unleashed a reign of terror in Nandigram. But what about the opposition that seeks to initiate another round of political discomfiture and fear elsewhere? Is that what the state's people want, a choice b

BY Rochona Majumdar 14 March 2007

The rapes of Imrana in India, Dr. Shazia Khalid in Pakistan, and most recently a television program called Corridors in Afghanistan.embody the possibility of a serious debate in the global public sphere about the status of Muslim women

BY Rochona Majumdar 16 August 2005

Many had argued that Dhananjoy's death would set an example to future offenders, but the little factoids that appear in the city's dailies seem to suggest a rather seamy and sordid reality in its wake.

BY Rochona Majumdar 2 September 2004

How are we to understand the ethos of censorship in Bengal? Do the Bengalis shrink away from filmic or other depictions and discussions of sexuality? Or is it just a case of control-freaks deciding how you dress, what you read and see?

BY Rochona Majumdar 7 July 2004

There isn't a shred of doubt in my mind about the dreadful and ghastly nature of both the crimes that have been grabbing headlines in Kolkata recently. But is retributive justice in the form of death penalty the best form that justice can take?

BY Rochona Majumdar 30 June 2004

Theft does not have politics. It screams the poverty of politics. It announces to the world that we are so bereft as a people, so denuded of any sense of the past, any pride in our cultural accomplishments, that we now strip our museums.

BY Rochona Majumdar 26 March 2004

Recently the 'Women's Studies Center' at the University of Pune was renamed as the 'Women's and Family Studies Center'. So what's the big deal about it all? A critical look.

BY Rochona Majumdar 4 September 2003

A man promises to marry a woman. Consequently, they have sex. The man does not marry the woman. The woman sues for rape. The courts agree. What do you think?

BY Rochona Majumdar 28 August 2003