In 1979, Basu Chatterjee made Baaton Baaton Mein and unobtrusively brought to us the dating and courtship rituals of a community that was till then either caricatured or just overlooked in Hindi cinema. Nancy Perreira and Tony Braganza…
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Matriarchal manipulation in a patriarchal world is depicted unsparingly in Usha Priyamwada’s Pachpan Khambe Laal Deewarein (Now playing on Prasar Bharti). The mother resentful of her lecturer daughter’s comfortable life in her college residence because the younger daughters…
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“Start with hope..always start with hope. We went from being a shitty team to become one of the biggest dynasties in the sport and all it needed was one match to light this fire,” says Michael Jordan at…
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In 1947, my grandparents brought three children and the remains of an uprooted life from Pakistan to India in a train. One of those children was my mother. I grew up hearing a lot of stories about the…
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Three documentaries streaming right now show the ultimate culmination of the Bois Locker Room culture. And what happens when one gender is taught to mistrust its instincts of self-preservation and the other does not even learn something as…
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In Sudip Sharma’s Paatal Lok (Now streaming on Amazon. Co written by Sharma, Sagar Haveli, Hardik Mehta and Gunjit Chopra. Directed by Avinash Arun and Prosit Roy), India’s disowned inhabit the headlines we turn away from. A young…
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Penguin India presents The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben. The English edition was published simultaneously across the world on 13th September. About the book: In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in the woodland […]
Ramachandra Guha’s Democrats and Dissenters (Penguin) contains essays on subjects of great contemporary relevance like threats to freedom of expression in India . About the book: Democrats and Dissenters is a work of rigorous scholarship on topics of compelling contemporary interest, written with elegance and wit. The book covers a wide range of themes: from […]
For Mental Health Week (Oct 4 – Oct 10), Penguin Random House India releases a definitive book on understanding suicide and suicide prevention. With Death is not the Answer, Understanding Suicide and the Ways to Prevent it, Dr Anjali Chhabria hopes to promote social and emotional well-being, encourage people to overcome grief, enhance the […]
A Paradise for travel and film buffs, DIFF 2016 which will be held from 3-6 November in McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala also gets a new look and venue. Among other highlights, docu features-A Syrian Love Story by British director Sean McAllister, the Iranian director Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami’s much-lauded Sonita, and fiction features -Thailand’s first female […]
Maraa, a provocative thought collective is launching its first book today. The book, Imaginarium of Sensuous Experiments is about every city and its multiplicity of sensory experiences. Says a note from Maraa, “The Imaginarium is a new lens to rediscover the city. In our work over the years,we have seen how public spaces are crucial to […]
Penguin Random House India presents a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. This is a bravura performance…a fine work from a true master. About the book: Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She’s still in the marital home – a dilapidated, priceless […]
‘AB de Villiers is the finest batsman of his generation:’ Virat Kohli ‘AB has become the most valuable cricketer on the planet:’ Adam Gilchrist The statistics tell barely half the story but, so far, AB de Villiers has scored over 14,000 runs in 98 tests for South Africa, more than 8,000 runs in 190 one-day […]
Alliance française de Bangalore in association with Bangalore Little Theatre partnership brings back the very first play which was part of the Playday Sunday program to celebrate two enjoyable years of Playday Sundays; The importance of being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde. ** About the play: Jack and Algernon are wealthy gentlemen. Jack (known to Algernon as Ernest) […]
Penguin Presents Bhujia Barons, a story about how a family – run business from humble Bikaner transformed Haldiram into a global, much-loved brand. This is the untold story of how Haldiram built a Rs. 5000 crore empire The Haldiram’s story is not an average business story—it’s chock-full of family drama, with court cases, jealousy-fuelled regional […]
NFDC Film Bazaar 2016 is calling for entries for the Viewing Room and the Work-in-Progress (WIP) Lab. This year, the Film Bazaar will be held from November 20-24, 2016 at the Goa Marriott Resort alongside the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2016. The Early Bird Deadline for submissions is August 31, 2016, which will offer a discount on the […]
“Minutes after he walked unhesitatingly into the crowd, there was a deafening sound as the bomb spluttered to life and exploded in a blinding flash. Everything changed. A moment that, in my head, will always be frozen in time. It was exactly 10.21 p.m.” Neena Gopal’s The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi gives a blow-by-blow account of the […]
Author Monideepa Sahu shares with the readers of Unboxed Writers, a short story that appeared in her recent book Going Home in the Rain and Other Stories. ** I dread sitting under trees, but today I’ll do it for my wife. She says sitting hand in hand with me under that tree is romantic. I like […]