The PI And The Show Girl: In One Good Deed (2019), David Baldacci had introduced a new series hero called Aloysius Archer, a World War II veteran, who was released…

While the world hunkered down and prayed for relief from the pandemic, Isabel Allende wrote a slim book titled, The Soul Of A Woman, which encapsulates her experiences and observations…

Troubles Catch Up: It’s been a while since Myron Bolitar made an appearance in a Harlan Coben book. The sports agent  and occasional crime solver got married in Home (2016),…

The suburban housing society where I grew up was cosmopolitan, populated by young couples with children around the same age, so when we were not at school or playing outside,…

Oscar history has been made this year, when two women, Chloe Zhao and Emerald Fennell, have been nominated in the Best Director Category; Zhao also being the first non white…

All In The Family: In our movies, the death of a woman’s husband is treated with full bangle-breaking, sindoor-wiping, melodrama, accompanied by ear-splitting doleful background music.  So how is a…

The Evil That Men Do: Most serial killer books have men attacking and brutally murdering women, and more often than not they are sex workers. These women easy targets, the…

Soul Saga: The life of Sufi poet Amir Khusrau lends itself beautifully to a musical dastaangoi performance, especially if writers-directors and lead actors Ajitesh Gupta and Mohit Agarwal are also excellent singers.…

Walk into a toy shop and most will have his and hers toys for kids, starting gender conditioning young. Among the pink-wrapped packages for girls, there will be a kitchen…

For The Love Of Music: As Bandish 20-20,000Hz returns in online format, revisiting a review of the Aadyam-backed production when it first opened in 2017. After Afsaane: Bai Se Bioscope Tak,…