As Russia invades Ukraine and the world is on the brink of another major war, what could be a worse manifestation of patriarchy than the killing of innocents. Still, popular…

Classic Forever: The 1957 stage musical, West Side Story, was made into a much-lauded, much-awarded film by Robert Wise in 1961. It was an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo And Juliet, set in…

Murder, He Wrote: The publishing industry is going through tough times, and Anthony Horowitz’s novel Magpie Murders captures the end of that glorious era, when writers of bestselling whodunits could make millions…

When the cops finally caught up with the conman, Ramesh Kumar Swain, who had married and defrauded 27 women across the country, they were surprised by his ordinary appearance—he is…

Gotta Gun: The title of Behzad Khambata’s A Thursday is obviously a hat-tip to the sleeper hit A Wednesday (2008– Neeraj Pandey) in which an angry citizen takes it upon himself to slap the…

The list of Best Actress nominees for the 2022 Academy Awards were announced, and it is an eclectic bunch of characters and performers vying for the coveted Oscar statuette. It…

One Of A Kind: Jack Reacher is a fascinating character, created by Lee Child, who wrote about 26 novels starring the six-foot five giant of a man, ex army intelligence,…

Science To Go: The timing of this web series could not have been better. Rocket Boys, comes at a time when the country seems to be regressing into memories of a…

Another celebrity couple—Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas had a baby using a surrogate; somewhere at the bottom of the report was the information that it was the woman’s fifth surrogacy. Which…

Say Boo : Characters on screen are often dangerously clueless, like the couple in Sam Bhattacharjee’s web series, Barun Rai And The House On The Cliff.  In real life, anybody with half a…