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. …
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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 …
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There was a short story, read long ago, in which a woman wants to take up a job. She gets one to run a crèche, so she has to hire …
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Girl In The Cold War At the best of times, it would be difficult, if not impossible, for a woman to get into the murky all-male world of espionage. And …
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Perilous Polly Bestselling author Laura Lippman’s twenty-third novel, Sunburn, is a twisty-turny romantic thriller, with a beautiful and sexy redheaded protagonist, who, after a bad marriage, decides to take control of her destiny, …
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All Noise, Little Fun Third in the Dhamaal series, this one too has a bunch of people chasing money, in It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World mode, which is one major thing that’s …
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The Time Is Right Dharavi, often referred to Asia’s largest slum, gave birth to the an underground rap scene, their rhythms, costumes and attitude strangely inspired by a form popularized …
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Recently, there was a show of a play called Pink Sari Revolution, directed by the London-based Suba Das, written by Purva Naresh, based on the book by Amana Fontanella-Khan. Made one wonder …
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Trapped By Truth Following the success of their last book The Wife Between Us, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, have written another psychological thriller, An Anonymous Girl, which is not as suspenseful and …
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Into The Writer’s Mind Lisa Halliday’s debut novel, Asymmetry, won awards, ecstatic reviews and found itself on every list of the best books of 2018 list. Not every young writer gets …