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All is not lost for DC despite five losses in a row: Penney

All is not lost for DC despite five losses in a row: Penney

24 April 2012 1:04 AM IST
Their campaign stuttering due to continuous failures with both bat and ball, time may be fast running out for the Deccan Chargers but their fielding...
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Japanese boy

Japanese boy's football lost in tsunami found in Alaska

23 April 2012 11:24 PM IST
A football swept away by last year's powerful tsunami that hit Japan has been found on a remote Alaskan island.Sixteen-year-old Misaki Murakami's name...
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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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An unvarnished account
"Life in American Politics & Diplomatic Years in India" | An unvarnished account

Author: Richard Celeste

Publisher: Har-Anand Publications

Price: 995

At five am on Wednesday, March 6th, 1985 my phone rang. I picked up immediately. “Governor,” Marvin...

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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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Crisis on multiple fronts
"Indian Economy’s Greatest Crisis" | Crisis on multiple fronts

Author: Arun Kumar

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 499

By mid-March, the government realized that a lockdown had become inevitable to control the spread of...

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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 tweakers: a legacy
"Wizards: The Story of Indian Spin Bowling" | India’s tweakers: a legacy

Author: Anindya Dutta

Publisher: Westland

Price: 599

February 7, 1999 – On a cold morning at the Ferozeshah Kotla (now Arun Jaitley Stadium), chasing 419...

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CULINARY HERITAGAE OF THE CAPITAL
"Jasmine & Jinns" | CULINARY HERITAGAE OF THE CAPITAL

Author: Sadia Dehlvi

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: 699

Written with lots of love it makes an otherwise mundane cookbook highly readable through it’s...

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NOT JUST A CANCER MEMOIR
"Close to the Bone" | NOT JUST A CANCER MEMOIR

Author: Lisa Ray

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: 599

“My cancer which I jokingly call The Caner (you have to laugh or as they say, you’ll die) – is a...

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Shaping sporting fortunes of a nation
"Sanath Jayasuriya: A Biography" | Shaping sporting fortunes of a nation

Author: Chandresh Narayanan

Publisher: Rupa Publications

Price: 295

Before the advent of T20 cricket, Sanath Jayasuriya had given the world the first glimpse of what...

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Claiming the artistic summit
"Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World" | Claiming the artistic summit

Author: Neil Gaiman

Publisher: Headline/Hachette India

Price: 399

Here's a writer – read widely and revered globally – who never graduated from a college but is now...

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WHEN COAL TURNED GOLD
"When Coal Turned Gold - The Making of a Maharatna Company" | WHEN COAL TURNED GOLD

Author: Partha Sarathi Bhattacharyya

Publisher: Penguin India

Price: 699

Coal India Ltd is the largest coal mining company of the world and a Maharatna PSU of the Government...

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The environmentally-conscious path
"The Climate Solution : India's Climate Change Crisis and What We Can Do About It" | The environmentally-conscious path

Author: Mridula Ramesh

Publisher: Allied Publishers Pvt Ltd

Price: 550

Mridula Ramesh's new book, The Climate Solution, presents a plethora of information, facts, figures...

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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...

Adorable and occasionally magical

"Abominable" | Adorable and occasionally magical

Director: Jill Culton

Star Cast: Chloe Bennet, Tenszing NorgayTrainor, Albert Tsai

There is something soothing, subtle and lovable about this 3D animated film. Despite being...

An action-packed, entertaining film

"The Angry Birds Movie 2" | An action-packed, entertaining film

Director: Thurop Van Orman

Star Cast: Tiffany Haddish, Nicki Minaj, Jo Jo Siwa, Zach Woods, Dove Cameron

The subtlety of “anger” in this animated sequel, inspired by the popular Angry Birds games available...

A Shahid canvas

"Kabir Singh" | A Shahid canvas

Director: Sandeep Reddy Vanga

Star Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Kiara Advani, Arjun Bawa

A Hindi remake of the popular Telegu film Arjun Reddy, director Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Kabir Singh,...

Smugly, aa, unrelatable kitsch

"Game Over" | Smugly, aa, unrelatable kitsch

Director: Ashvin Saravanan

Star Cast: Taapsee Pannu, Vinodhini, Ramya Subramanian

With all the trappings of its genre tropes, the film Game Over starts with a promise. But to accept...

A contrived espionage drama

"Romeo Akbar Walter" | A contrived espionage drama

Director: Robbie Grewal

Star Cast: John Abraham, Mouni Roy, Sikander Kher, Jackie Shroff, Alka Amin and Suchitra Krishnamoorthi

Director Robbie Grewal seems to have taken Shakespeare’s quote, “What’s in a name?” literally. This...

More personal than cricket

"22 Yards" | More personal than cricket

Director: Mitali Ghoshal

Star Cast: Barun Sobti, Amartya Ray, Chaiti Ghoshal, Rajit Kapoor, Panchi Bora, Geetika Tyagi, Rajeev Sharma

22 Yards is a cricket film that’s not actually about cricket. The actual game takes up less than 15...

Scrappy and tedious fare

"Amavas" | Scrappy and tedious fare

Director: Bushan Patel

Star Cast: Sachiin Joshi, Nargis Fakhri, Vivan Bhatena, Mona Singh, Ali Asgar, Navneet Kaur Dhillon

Director Bushan Patel’s Amavas will surely top the catalogue as the worst horror-action-thriller in...

Familiar but taut thriller

"Escape Room" | Familiar but taut thriller

Director: Adam Robitel

Star Cast: Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Tyler Labine, Deborah Ann Woll, Nik Dodani, Jay Ellis

Adam Robitel’s Escape Room is a taut thriller that surely keeps you enthralled. It is an escape room...

A preach-fest that fails to make an impact

"The Dark Side of Life: Mumbai City" | A preach-fest that fails to make an impact

Director: Tariq Khan

Star Cast: Mahesh Bhatt, Kay Kay Menon, Deepraj Rana, Neha Khan, Alisha Seema Khan, Avii Pardasani, Nikhil Ratnaparkhi, Jyoti Malshe, Sayed Gul and Irfanouzzaman

This film is a preach-fest which underlines, “Zindagi mein haarna, par zindagi se na haarna”, which...

A preach-fest that fails to make an impact

"The Dark Side of Life: Mumbai City" | A preach-fest that fails to make an impact

Director: Tariq Khan

Star Cast: Mahesh Bhatt, Kay Kay Menon, Deepraj Rana, Neha Khan, Alisha Seema Khan, Avii Pardasani, Nikhil Ratnaparkhi, Jyoti Malshe, Sayed Gul and Irfanouzzaman

This film is a preach-fest which underlines, “Zindagi mein haarna, par zindagi se na haarna”, which...

Funnily scary and mediocre

"Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween" | Funnily scary and mediocre

Director: Ari Sandel

Star Cast: Wendi McLendon-Covey, Madison Iseman, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Jack Black, Caleel Harris, Chris Parnell, Ken Jeong

This is a sequel to the 2015 released film Goosebumps. The action in this film revolves around three...

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