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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Kalidasa is India’s greatest classical poet and dramatist, and his rendition of the story of Shakuntala is his most famous play. As part of their highly acclaimed ongoing series that seeks to bring the great poet’s oeuvre to a new generation of readers, Penguin Classics offers a new translation of Kalidasa’s work; Abhijnanashakuntalam, The Recognition of Shakuntala. […]
Pan Macmillan presents The Trap by Melanie Raabe. About the book: Twelve years ago, Linda’s sister Anna was murdered. Her killer was never caught, but Linda saw him. Now, all these years on, she’s just seen him again. On TV. He has since become a well-known reporter, and Linda – a famous novelist and infamous recluse – […]
Pan Macmillan presents Helen Oyeyemi’s What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. This exquisite collection of stories is for anyone who loves Allende and Marquez. Welcome to Helen’s world of lost places and lost people, of love and cruelty, of keys that haven’t found their locks . Praise: ‘Oyeyemi’s imagination is impressive and vast . […]
Pan Macmillan presents Zero K by Don DeLillo, the wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from one of the great American novelists of our time. This is an ode to language, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life. DeLillo’s seductive, spectacularly observed and brilliant novel Zero K weighs the darkness of […]
Pan Macmillan presents Remembering Muhammad Ali-King of the World by David Remnick. King of the World is the story of an incredible rise to power, a book of battles fought inside the ring and out. With grace and power, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Remnick tells of a transcendent athlete and entertainer, a rapper before rap was born. […]
Published by Penguin Books, The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly is a guide through the 12 technological imperatives that will shape the future and transform our lives. About the book: It’s 2046. You don’t own a car, or much of anything else, paying instead to subscribe to items as you need them. Virtual reality is as commonplace as cell phones. […]
Penguin presents The Gospel of Yudas by K.R. Meera and translated by Rajesh Rajamohan. K.R. Meera won the Sahitya Akademi Award for her literary masterpiece Hangwoman and her latest The Gospel of Yudas is set in Kerala in the wake of the Emergency and is a heartrending story with deeply nuanced characters. Young and impressionable, Prema is deeply infatuated with […]
Paulo Coelho – the bestselling author of Adultery and other works – whose books have sold 200 million copies in 160 countries is back. Coelho’s new novel,THE SPY is based on the life of Mata Hari and will be published by Penguin Random House. THE SPY brings to life the true story of Mata Hari, the famous courtesan and accused spy […]
For a generation that grew up eating Dairy Milk chocolates, ITC’s Fabelle range of luxury chocolates will be a revelation. Made with best quality cocoa and crafted into unique flavour combinations, the new generation of Indian chocolates seems to have finally arrived. Created and developed over a period of 10 years, Fabelle goodies aim to fill a big […]
Penguin Random House presents, Rage of the River, The Untold Story of the Kedarnath Disaster by Hridayesh Joshi Three years after the Kedarnath disaster, stories from the valley—of pain and sorrow, Uttarakhand and central governments’ indifference and the corporate goof-ups, and the courage and heroism shown by the locals in the face of an absolute catastrophe— have […]
Dia Mirza is all set to chill her fans in India’s first Horror Web Series, Shockers. After starring in the country’s first Indo-Iranian project, Salaam Mumbai and tapping a whole new segment of television audience with her solo travelling series, Ganga-The Soul of India, the actor is now all set to take the web by storm. Dia […]
Teaching is just another form of learning. And most of the time, you meet teachers in the unlikeliest of places. Once while teaching a class of post graduate students of media studies, I was told by a young girl, “You know ma’am..if you have something to offer, you will never go hungry. There will always […]