Hazy Picture Ritesh Batra’s much-acclaimed film The Lunchbox, was about the unlikely connection between a middle-aged man and a lonely young woman. His latest, Photograph, could be described in the same words, only…

Land Of Half Lives News footage coming out of Kashmir is full of violence, and soldiers watching over an uneasy calm that could blow up in their faces if they…

Another Toilet Katha The problem of a lack of sanitation exists in India, and Toilet : Ek Prem Katha brought it to the notice of mainstream cinema audiences, while documentaries continue to…

There are sighting all over the city—these slim, smart-looking, young women in khaki, guarding the women’s compartment in local trains, onbandobast duty at rallies, pacifying female complainants at the police station.…

Stormy Weather Florida is known as the pensioners’ paradise, where elderly people retire, to get the benefits of its beaches and warm weather. However in Lauren Groff’s book, made up of…

Random Acts Of Cruelty Kristen Roupenian’s extraordinary short story Cat Person, published in the New Yorker, was so popular, that she followed it up with a collection of twelve witty and wicked stories,…

A Game Of Chance Heads You Win, Jeffrey Archer’s first standalone novel after the sprawling seven-part Clifton Chronicles, is also an epic set in three countries spanning several decades. In 1968, a…

When Duty Calls Fiona Barton’s third novel, The Suspect, also has as it protagonist, a senior and seasoned reporter, Kate Waters, only this time, she is on both sides of a…

Love, Lies and Suspense For Sujoy Ghose, whose biggest hit so far has been Kahaani, the Spanish film The Invisible Guest (Oriol Paulo, 2016) , must have been an attractive project to remake. …

Ghetto Girl The Hate U Give, the first novel by Angie Thomas, a scathing account of racism, seen from the point of view of a teenage black girl, was a…