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Over 200 children protest against Trump

Over 200 children protest against Trump's immigration policies

14 April 2017 10:49 AM IST
According to the organisers, the group included children from Miami, New York, Colorado and the Washington D.C. area who began their journey to the capital last week to "send a message" to the President, The Hill magazine reported.
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Extravagance feeding off adversities
"Thomas Manuel’s Opium Inc." | Extravagance feeding off adversities

Author: Thomas Manuel

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: 595

Opium Inc: How A Global Drug Trade Funded the British Empire’ is not just a magnum opus on opium,...

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Wakeup call
"Celebrating Small Victories: My Journey Through Two Decades of AIDS Response" | Wakeup call

Author: J.V.R. Prasada Rao

Publisher: Notion Press

Price: 600

The book ‘Celebrating Small Victories: My Journey Through Two Decades of AIDS Response’ traces the...

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Politics of citizenship
"ON CITIZENSHIP" | Politics of citizenship

Author: N Ram, Romila Thapar, Gautam Bhatia and Gautam Patel

Publisher: Aleph Book Company

Price: 499

India might have awakened to ‘life and freedom’ at the stroke of the midnight hour separating 14...

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Painting a picture
"Broken Lines and Rainbows" | Painting a picture

Author: Raja Chakraborty

Publisher: Hawakal Publishers

Price: 350

Raja Chakraborty’s creative repertoire includes verse collections in both English and Bengali. While...

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Towering intellectual contributions
"How to Read Amartya Sen" | Towering intellectual contributions

Author: Lawrence Hamilton

Publisher: Penguin India

Price: 499

There are a number of ways in which freedom is central to the work of Amartya Sen. Right across his...

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The end of autonomy
"The Battle of Belonging" | The end of autonomy

Author: Shashi Tharoor

Publisher: Aleph Book Company

Price: 799

As I have noted, Prime Minister Modi likes to practise what American generals call ‘shock and awe’....

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India’s irrepressible gadfly
"Rebels with a Cause" | India’s irrepressible gadfly

Author: TT Ram Mohan

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 599

In early 2014, Arundhati Roy wrote a lengthy introduction to one of B.R. Ambedkar’s most powerful...

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Abuse of greatness
"Bahawalpur: the kingdom that vanished" | Abuse of greatness

Author: Anabel Loyd

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 599

Salahuddin Abbasi’s view of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is epitomized by Stanley Wolpert’s opening remarks...

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Star of the Millennium
"Amitabh Bachchan: A Kaleidoscope" | Star of the Millennium

Author: Pradeep Chandra & Vikas Chandra Sinha

Publisher: Niyogi Books

Price: 1500

Don is the only Hindi film directed by Chandra Barot. Both Don and Barot have interesting histories....

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Curtailing autonomy & eliminating personhood
"Fearless Freedom" | Curtailing autonomy & eliminating personhood

Author: Kavita Krishnan

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 299

To call Kavita Krishnan’s Fearless Freedom radical would be regressive given her brutal account of...

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Finding facts in fiction
"The Book of Indian Kings" | Finding facts in fiction

Author: Romila Thapar, William Dalrymple, Salman Rushdie, Kushwant Singh

Publisher: Aleph Book Company

Price: 399

History and historians are a world to themselves at least to the lay readers. Naturally, Indians...

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Storm in a teacup
"The Magnificent Diwan: The Life and Times of Sir Salar Jung I" | Storm in a teacup

Author: Bakhtiar K Dadabhoy

Publisher: Vintage Books

Price: 999

In March 1875, it was announced that Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales (who became Edward VII in...

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A technically impressive film

"‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’" | A technically impressive film

Director: JJ Abrams

Star Cast: Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega

This ninth episode of the “Star Wars” franchise is the last of the sequel’s trilogy after “The Force...

Banal take on infidelity

"Out Of Love" | Banal take on infidelity

Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia and Aijaz Khan

Star Cast: Rasika Dugal, Purab Kohli

For a large part of its playing time, ‘Out Of Love’ looks like banal take on infidelity. Except that...

Sensitive but soppy

"The Sky Is Pink" | Sensitive but soppy

Director: Shonali Bose

Star Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Farhan Akhtar, Zaira Wasim

The statutory note first: Don’t forget a box of tissues. Sky, pink or white – take your pick in...

Killer thriller

"Judgementall Hai Kya" | Killer thriller

Director: Prakash Kovelamudi

Star Cast: Kangana Ranaut, Rajkummar Rao

Judgementall Hai Kya celebrates the bizarre, at the cost of giving in to glaring flaws, much like...

Super 30 anything but super

"Super 30" | Super 30 anything but super

Director: Vikas Bahl

Star Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Mrunal Thakur, Pankaj Tripathi

The film is a biopic of Patna-based educationist Anand Kumar (played by Hrithik Roshan), a math wiz...

Powerful and compelling

"City Of Dreams" | Powerful and compelling

Director: Nagesh Kukunoor

Star Cast: Priya Bapat, Sidharth Chandekar, Eijaz Khan and Vishwas Kini

What starts off seeming to be a take-off on Mani Ratnam’s most recent political drama Chekka...

A charming Disney fare

"Dumbo" | A charming Disney fare

Director: Tim Burton

Star Cast: Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green, Alan Arkin, Nico Parker, Finley Hobbins, Roshan Seth, DeObia Oparei, Sharon Rooney, Phil Zimmerman, Douglas Reith, Joseph Gatt

Director Tim Burton’s Dumbo is a live-action film inspired from Disney’s 1941 animated classic of...

Kangana reigns as Manikarnika

"Manikarnika: The queen of Jhansi" | Kangana reigns as Manikarnika

Director: Kangana Ranaut, Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi

Star Cast: Kangana Ranaut, Ankita Lokhande, Jishu Sengupta, Danny Dengongzpa, Suresh Oberoi, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Kulbhushan Kharbanda

Khoob Ladi Mardaani Woh Toh Jhansi Waali Rani Thi – this is how prominent Hindi poet Subhadra Kumari...

A film based on witness protection

"Bombairiya" | A film based on witness protection

Director: Pia Sukanya

Star Cast: Radhika Apte, Akshay Oberoi, Adil Hussain, Siddhanth Kapoor, Ravi Kishen, Shilpa Shukla, Ajinkya Deo

Bombairiya is a complexly designed film with a plethora of characters and sub plots strewn all over,...

Go for Gold

"“Gold”" | Go for Gold

Director: Reema Kagti

Star Cast: Akshay Kumar, Kunal Kapoor, Amit Sadh, Mouni Roy, Vineet Kumar Singh

There is something to be said about motivational sports films. They make you stand and cheer even...

Performances make the heart beat

"“Dhadak”" | Performances make the heart beat

Director: Shashank Khaitan

Star Cast: Ishaan Khatter, Janhvi, Ashutosh Rana

Director Shashank Khaitan’s Dhadak suffers from a lack of intrigue, right at the outset, as owing to...

Action-packed but lacks thrills

"“Race 3”" | Action-packed but lacks thrills

Director: Remo D’Souza

Star Cast: Anil Kapoor, Salman Khan, Bobby Deol, Jacqueline Fernandez, Saqib Saleem, Daisy Shah, Freddy Daruwalla

Race 3, as the name suggests, is the third edition of the franchise, but has no narrative connection...

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