Hope Floats: Of all the characters in Angie Kim’s bestselling debut novel, Miracle Creek, Young Yoo gets the most  sympathy. The Korean woman comes to the US in the hope …

Fragrance Of Simplicity: Vidya Sinha, who passed away on August 15, was among a band of girls-next-door, who appeared in Bollywood around the same time in the Seventies; many of …

Rocket Science For Dummies Rating: *** When there are budget problems in the Mars Orbiter Mission undertaken by an ISRO scientist on a dare — because a NASA snob said it …

Trigger Unhappy: Rating: *** Delhi police could not have got a better PR job if they had actually commissioned Batla House. However, in the best stranger-than-fiction mode, Nikkhil Advani’s film is …

A one-woman stage presentation, Cast Off All Shame, by Ulka Mayur (in picture above), brought into focus the women Bhakti poets of India, who predated the feminist movement—as we know it …

Bridezilla Strikes:   There can be no wedding in our country, without high stress and drama, some of which playwright-director Veena Bakshi has captured with humour in Ank’s production of Hamari Neeta Ki Shaadi. …

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 …

Snatched From Headlines:   Daniel Silva’s astonishingly topical thrillers have plots that could actually have taken place, outside of the writer’s imagination; in fact, a few of his books have …

Bihari Blues: Rating: * 1/2 Only in a crazily patriarchal and lawless society like Bihar could the system of ‘pakadwa shaadi’ even exist, under which eligible men are kidnapped and …

If, a few years ago, somebody had suggested that 007 should be a woman, they would have been laughed off the studio lot. However, today, a production company  sees the …