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Nov

2018

Stan the Man

Art & CultureCaptain America, Comics, Fantastic Four, Hollywood, Hulk, Marvel Comics, Spider-Man, Spidey, Stan Lee, Superhero

Written By: Debkumar Mitra Kolkata, India Illustration: Sagar Mondal Stan Lee: Born: New York, December 28, 1922 Died: Los Angeles, November 12, 2018 Known for: Co-writing comic book superheroes Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and X-Men The man who claimed to have co-created Spider-Man with Jack Kirby is no more. ‘Stan the Man’ would not have liked his obituary to begin with this way. The man who created the superhero culture and gave comics the shine and the gloss of a Hollywood A movie, Marvel legend Stan Lee is dead. He left behind millions of Marvel…

Jul

2018

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Heroes and A Tale of Migration – Part 4

From Director’s Desk Written By: Jayanta Chakrabarty Multidimension Illustration : Avijit Ghosh The island of Lampedusa has an area of 20.2 square kilometers and a population of about 6,000 people. Its main industries are fishing and tourism. By May 2011, as the Arab Spring was in full swing, more than 35,000 immigrants arrived in the island from Tunisia and Libya. By the end of August, 48,000 arrived. Most of them were young males in their 20s and 30s, and the large majority of them were Muslims. Italy had repeatedly requested aid from the EU to manage this large number of…

Jul

2018

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Heroes and A Tale of Migration – Part 3

From Director’s Desk Written By : Jayanta Chakrabarty Multidimension Illustration : Avijit Ghosh On the other side of Sea, in Europe, another scenario had already unraveled. The overall suicide rate in Greece rose by 35% between 2011 to 2012. The suicide mortality rate for men increased from 5.75 (2003–2010) to 7.43 per 100 000 population during this period, i,e, 2 in a day. Experts attributed the rise to the country's economic crisis. The dream of the Euro as a strong currency was dented. The Greek economy was one of the Eurozone's fastest growing from 2000 to 2007, averaging 4.2% annually,…