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A country with relatively unrestricted trade will face two problems: the first is a balance of payments problem because its exports are insufficient relative to its imports. And the second, the creation of unemployment, and more generally of domestic resources remaining idle, because domestic goods cannot compete with imports.

In countries where recipients of titles like Rai Bahadur and Khan Bahadur were once much looked upto and in another country where holders of knighthood and peerage still enjoy a status of their own have a common link- the English language. Small wonder, heads turn to have a better look at a man, a noted English language poet when he refused to accept Order of the British Empire (OBE) from none other than the British Prime Minister and the Queen.

As a singer Anup Ghoshal’s name was never taken in Bengal on the same breath as Hemanta Mukhopadhyay or even Dwijen Mukherjee; nor did his songs enjoy the popularity of Manna De or Shyamal Mitra. Yet Ghoshal who passed away in Kolkata on December 15, attained a unique distinction which none of the artistes of Bengal enjoyed. He was 78.

After his debut film Homecoming's success, Director Soumyajit Majumdar is currently working on Parvathy Baul's biopic. Notably, the director has confirmed an actress from the Hindi film industry playing Parvathy's character and is nearing the casting process's finalization. The biopic promises to shed light on her transformative journey and highlight her immeasurable contributions to Baul music.

It is a morning knock but is no less sinister than a midnight one as Dublin microbiologist Eilish Stack comes face to face with state's totalitarianism as powers that seek to interrogate her trade unionist husband Larry. It is in this way Paul Lynch, an Irish author begins the book ’Prophet Song’ in the backdrop of Dublin's descent into dystopia. The book just got the Booker Prize for this year.

The veteran Hollywood film director Martin Scorsese's life is apparently somewhat reminiscent of the great American dream of a new kid on the block overcoming odds and gaining material success, a humble background notwithstanding. But as one looks at the vast body of his works in celluloid one is left in no doubt that the man from the mean streets of Lower Manhattan, a New York suburb was not in pursuit of mere commercial triumph but something that far outlasts it- a place of honour in the hall of fame of world cinema.

Arguably, the most influential music band, The Beatles used their platform to spread love and peace in a troubled time. The last song of The Beatles remind the audience why the audience fell in love with the mop-topped boys from Liverpool.

Jon Fosse writes on silence. Even as critics split hair whether the author of the "unsayable" who pens his thoughts in Norwegian Nynorsk language is the right recipient of Nobel Prize for literature this year, his readers are enjoying a joyous laughter. But it is not a loud guffaw which expresses their happiness at their favourite author being awarded this coveted distinction. For it is in honour of Fosse who articulates the softly said and unsaid words.

Greece’s communists began the mid-twentieth century on the battlefield, moved from there to the prisons and then, if they were lucky, exile. The less fortunate found themselves in front of firing squads.

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances is a quote which aptly encapsulates the histrionic talent of Michael John Gambon who passed away last week.. He lived up to this quote as the octogenarian will be best remembered for his performance in the role of Albus Dumbledore in a series of Harry Potter movies based on an seemingly unending fairy tale