Back To Phulera: The first season of Panchayat came out in 2020, a little after Covid19 locked down everything and an OTT boom hit television viewers of the country. The Viral Fever…

Welcome Back, Bosch: Bosch completed seven seasons, but the show based on the character from Michael Connelly’s best-selling books, had to go on, because fans wanted more. So Titus Welliver returns…

Viola Davis is the first Black actress to have won the big three–an Oscar (for films), Emmy (for television) and Tony (for theatre) awards—in an atmosphere rife with racism, sexism and…

Romancing The City: A series of real-life stories contributed by people to The New York Times for a column called Modern Love was converted by John Carney into a web series with the same title.…

The wickedly pulpy Bollywoodian crime-revenge-family drama, Savage Beauty, is a kind of Succession, set in South Africa, with Black actors.  If in American shows, the characters are all look sleek, clad…

Those were pre-internet days, so no ebook readers and no ordering books online. Kids hooked to reading had to join circulating libraries (almost non-existent now) in the neighbourhood, and read…

Save The Book:  Many must have had to look up the meaning of Aaeen—the sound of the word has a certain romance to it, which Samvidhan does not, neither does Constitution, both of…

Cowboy  Country: Created by Brian Watkins, Outer Range is not a straight cowboys-on-ranch series. It is a fascinating, sometimes confusing, blend of sci-fi fantasy, mythology and family drama. The best thing about stories…

Spy Versus Spy: Mick Herron created with his Slough House series of novels, a wonderfully absurd world of espionage. The most memorable character in his books is Jackson Lamb, the foul-mouthed and flatulent…

This happens quite often. A middle-aged woman, say aged 50, is standing in a queue. A man will casually saunter ahead of her. She will either not protest, or if…