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Pursuit of Happiness
Money can't buy love, compatibility or happiness, as a young woman in Makrand Deshpande's play, Sir Sir Sarla discovers for herself. The professor she admires and listens to ...
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Ludo mania has swept Mumbai and is spreading to the small towns of northern India, mainly Bihar, U.P. and Jharkhand. The unusual aspect of the mania is that the centuries-old...
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Khurrum Rahman’s excellent debut novel, East Of Hounslow manages a near impossible feat—he writes about Islamic terrorism with a clear-headed, balanced a...
Read MoreA Hope And A Prayer
Showbusiness is about success and stardom, but failure has its place too—if there is a top of the ladder, there has to be bottom rung as well... In Mumbai, t...
Read MoreElectric Women
What if the gender equation were to be reversed so that women could not just defend themselves against violent males but also overpower them? Would the world become a better, ...
Read MorePower of Imagination
There is no limit to where the imagination can go, and some the best children’s books encourage this ability. As people grow up, reality takes over but for a child the w...
Read MoreTrouble In Paradise
Celeste Ng’s award-winning debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, was set in the Seventies, and explored issues of race and alienation of the ‘ou...
Read MoreThe More Things Change…
Ajit Dalvi’s Marathi play Samajswasthya, directed by Atul Pethe, is a startling reminder that in spite of all the progress India has witnessed over the last ce...
Read MoreThe Writing is on the Wall
The year 2017 will go down in the history of the media and entertainment industries of the world as one, which was the most disruptive ever. However, the times that the busin...
Read MoreBy The Sea
Jennifer Egan’s 2011 novel, on her Pulitzer. Experimental in form, the book had thirteen chapters from different points of view and different periods of time. It to...
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A sweeping year-end chronicle of cinema, culture, memory, rebellion, and conscience&mdas...
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Lately, it’s been raining awards and accolades on the path-breaking multi-media ac...
December 16 2025POWERFUL PEOPLE: LISTENING TO LIVES
Journalist, author, translator, and cultural chronicler Sathya Saran reflects on a life ...
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