Production house Dharma Production’s BADRINATH KI DULHANIA, follow up to the successful rom-com drama, HUMPTY SHARMA KI DULHANIA, warrants huge expectations from the makers, both commercially and musically as well, keeping in mind the memorable audio of the former (‘Samjhawan’ is a hit at most singing reality shows). So let’sContinue Reading
Direction: Gurinder Chadha Screenplay: Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges, Moira Buffini Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi, Michael Gambon Length: 106 minutes Rating: 12A With Indian independence from the British Empire now inevitable, this historical drama charts the story of the planning for the Partition of India,Continue Reading
Karukku is an autobiography that chronicles Bama’s life, from her childhood to her early adult life as a nun, and beyond. The book was originally written by her in Tamil’: An Autobiography By Bama Exploring Her Tamil, Dalit And Christian IdentityContinue Reading
By: Roshan Shah Author: S. Ignacimuthu Publisher: St Pauls, Mumbai Year: 2010 Pages: 126 ISBN: 978-93-5015-001-6 Price: Rs. 80 That the earth is today faced with a grave ecological crisis few would deny. Because of unbridled greed, leading to over-consumption and over-production, a huge proportion of the earth’s resources hasContinue Reading
“They came to the city in a large boat that halts at Vallakadavu. From Vallakadavu, they got into bullock carts to make the rest of the journey to my home…. Just behind the cart occupied by the patriarch was the cart that carried the wooden cradle made for the newbornContinue Reading
C.M. Paul Reflections : A book of poetry by Kened Pradhan or popularly known as ‘Ken P’ originally from Darjeeling is a poignant pick of poems reflecting life from a variety of moments and moods. The book released in January is published by The Print Master Darjeeling. Ken P switchesContinue Reading
An interesting watch over a quiet weekend, Continue Reading
Imagine you are on this wonderful holiday with your wife, trying to make things work out, especially after she has come to know of your side-kick affair with a younger woman but is willing to make a few sanctions and try things out again. And then you meet this loud-mouthContinue Reading
Director : Rahul Dholakia Music : Ram Sampath Lyrics : Javed Akhtar Starring : Shahrukh Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Mahira Khan and Atul Kulkarni Two premier production houses, Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment join hands for an all-out masala fare, a crime thriller , RAEES, starring the badshah himself.Continue Reading
Pankaj Mishra Hindu nationalists have always made large claims about their exemplary and inimitable Hindu-ness. In Essentials of Hindutva, the book that comes closest to defining the ideology of modern Hindu nationalism, V D Savarkar claimed that the Hindus are a people who possess a common pitrubhumi or fatherland, commonContinue Reading