Chronicle Of A Death: Laila Lalami’s The Other Americans is written with an understated sense of the dramatic—a sudden death and the impact on people around, opens up like one of those toys …
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The issue of sexual harassment in not confined to North India, but going by news reports coming out regularly, it is not for nothing that Delhi is known as the …
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Teacher’s Pets: **1/2 The key line in Super 30, repeated often, is that the time when only a king’s son could become king has passed, now only the deserving gets …
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As The Crow Flies: A materialistic western society is taken up by Mary Kondo, who teaches people how to unclutter and simplify their lives. The idea is not new; almost …
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Over The Rainbow: Who could have imagined that a photo of Judy Garland and Maud Gage Baum sitting together on a film set, would trigger this wonderful book, Finding Dorothy, by …
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Soggy Romance: Rating: ** The male lead of Mangesh Hadawale’s Malaal is the bad boy of a Mumbai chawl, which, in a film set in the late Nineties, with its heart caught …
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Mumbai has an overactive theatre scene, but most groups suffer from a severe shortage of funding, which then results in working around available—and often inadequate– resources. Which is why, when Aadyam was …
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Spotlight On Oman Jokha Alharthi’s Celestial Bodies is the first novel from the Gulf to win the Man Booker International Prize—a book by a female Omani author at that, a scholar and academic. The judges called …
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We have all encountered this—a kid lying on the floor of a store, screaming and throwing a tantrum till the harassed parent gives him (it is invariably a boy) what …
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Heart of Darkness: Rating: **** An IPS officer with a wardrobe of natty suits descends on Lalgarh in UP on a punishment posting, and gets a taste of what the …