The slight air of sleaze emanating from the stills and promos of the web series Rasbhari, not to mention the title itself, and then the reactions to it on social media …
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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 …