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On The Eve Of Another Silent Anniversary
Overwhelmed by grief when my father passed away in January 1966I did not know how to combat that empty feeling. I was just 23 years old and I had had so much to talk, listen, ...
Read MoreThe Times Are Changing
Those familiar with Gujarati theatre would know that, by and large, the audience favours family dramas and social comedies. However, there are always exceptions to the rule, a...
Read MoreNo Room With An Interview Any More
Yesterday, a master blaster -- a former editor of mine whom I respect unconditionally-- called up from the deepest shade of blue, to ask, “Can you interview Lata Mangesh...
Read MoreFREEDOM My Story By Arunaraje Patil
Arunaraje Patil’s newly released memoir is justly titled FREEDOM. It matches the title of her best known directorial work – RIHAEE- or liberation. The film, she be...
Read MoreMemory Man Returns
David Baldacci created a very intriguing and tragic protagonist in Amos Decker. In his first Decker novel, The Memory Man (2015), he introduced a man with who cannot forget an...
Read MoreNo Way Out
Of all the characters in the Mahabharat, it is perhaps Abhimanyu who most strongly personifies the futility of war, and the toll it takes on the young and innocent, who are ca...
Read MoreSo Long, Farewell, It’s Hard To Say Goodbye!
The last time I spoke to Piroj was two days before Nina Goel, her friend called me from Piroj’s mobile phone to inform me of her hospitalization and to tell me that Piro...
Read MoreLong Arm Of Fear
It’s taken a while for this 2012 to come out in an English translation, but it was worth the wait for readers of Japanese crime fiction (Keigo Higashino is already a bes...
Read MoreThirty-Seven Years Later
Today, the media is full of crimes against women, victims are coming forward to file complaints, there are many more arrests and even few convictions even if they are not as m...
Read MoreIn The Line Of Fire
Bestselling author Danielle Steel’s new book Dangerous Games has a tough female protagonist, the kind who is still not all that common in fiction; mostly the strong wome...
Read MoreALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: THE MANY WAYS WE LOOKED IN 2025
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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