What would Hillary Rodham’s life have been like, had she not married Bill Clinton? Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel, Rodham, imagines the scenario, and it would not be a spoiler to reveal that…
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On Your Marx: As a tribute to playwright Uttam Gada, revisiting his play Karl Marx In Kalbadevi: About seven years ago, Manoj Shah directed a play called Karl Marx In Kalbadevi, written by…
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If it is possible to feel outraged over a quarter of a century after an incident made news, then watching the TV film, I Was Lorena Bobbitt brings out a kind of…
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As a tribute to Basu Chatterjee, who passed away on June 6, 2020, a look at his quintessential Mumbai film: At the peak of his prolific filmmaking career, Basu…
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And All Falls Down: Emily St. John Mandel follows up her powerful novel, Station Eleven, about a global pandemic (sci-fi is turning out to be true) with The Glass Hotel,…
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When large chunks of the world seem to be tipping back into conservatism—if not complete right-wing lunacy, the web series, Mrs America, is like a pouring-ice-water-on-the-head kind of reminder that women are…
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Only The Lonely: Anne Tyler’s last two books, Vinegar Girl and Clock Dance were mildly disappointing, but she is back to her A Spool Of Blue Thread form with…
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As the new Sara Paretsky novel, Dead Land, is released (and immediately picked up), it leads to musings about the female detective in fiction. Paretsky created the wonderful character, V.I.…
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This day in 1973, Prakash Mehra’s Zanjeer was released, a film that that is indisputably a mainstream trendsetter. There is movielore attached to the old film– which does not…
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Mother’s Day : The original Marathi play, Aai Retire Hotey by Ashok Patole, was written over thirty years ago, and has had several productions since then, in multiple languages. Many aspects…