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Stephen Frears to direct series based on William Dalrymples The Anarchy for Roy Kapur Films and WIIP

Stephen Frears to direct series based on William Dalrymple's 'The Anarchy' for Roy Kapur Films and WIIP

24 April 2025 12:06 PM IST
New Delhi: Acclaimed British filmmaker Stephen Frears will tackle the series adaptation of author William Dalrymple's "The Anarchy: The Relentless...
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Stories of steel and gunpowder
"The Maharaja of Jodhpur's Guns" | Stories of steel and gunpowder

Author: Robert Elgood

Publisher: Niyogi Books

Price: 4500

The Mehrangarh Museum Trust at Jodhpur has preserved the historic monuments and artefacts of the...

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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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Superhuman River : Stories of the Ganga
"River that yields gold" | Superhuman River : Stories of the Ganga

Author: Bidisha Banerjee

Publisher: Aleph Book Company

Price: 499

The unknown Bird in the cage... how does it fly in and out? —Lalon’s verse ‘Unknown Bird’ ...

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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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Of loss and resilience
"Plassey: The Battle that Changed the Course of Indian History" | Of loss and resilience

Author: Sudeep Chakravarti

Publisher: Aleph Book Company

Price: 799

In the Ain-i-Akbari, a record of administration during the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar, what...

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Agitating the chessboard
"Mapping the Great Game" | Agitating the chessboard

Author: Riaz Dean

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 599

The Great Game has an interesting place in history. During its course, its players considered the...

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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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Out of the darkness
"The Barefoot Surgeon" | Out of the darkness

Author: Ali Gripper

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 399

The thing about reviewing biographies is deciding how to evaluate the writer’s own writing. Do you...

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Post-Colonial Assam
"Assam’s shifting geopolitical landscape" | Post-Colonial Assam

Author: Mrinal Talukdar

Publisher: Nanda Talukdar Foundation & Kaziranga Books

Price: 800

Mrinal Talukdar’s new book Post-Colonial Assam (1947-2019) covers 72 years of Assam’s political...

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Confabbing with Bollywood luminaries
"In Conversation with the Stars" | Confabbing with Bollywood luminaries

Author: Anupama Chopra

Publisher: Rupa

Price: 295

We often find solace encountering celebrities getting candid or revealing some unknown facts about...

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The power of policy
"Challenges of Governance" | The power of policy

Author: B K Chaturvedi

Publisher: Rupa

Price: 595

A 1966 UP cadre IAS officer, B K Chaturvedi traversed a rather arduous journey from the hinterlands...

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BRIDGING GENDER DISPARITY
"Sex-Selective Abortion and the State" | BRIDGING GENDER DISPARITY

Author: Bijayalaxmi Nanda

Publisher: Har-Anand Publication

Price: 795

Bijayalaxmi Nanda is a well-known academician in India who has worked extensively on women’s rights...

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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...

All about Marvelous Ms Brosnahan

"The Marvelous Mrs Maisel 3" | All about Marvelous Ms Brosnahan

Director: Amy Sherman-Palladino

Star Cast: Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein, Michael Zegen, Marin Hinkle, Tony Shalhoub, Kevin Pollak

It must be the law of averages, really, how Season Three pales in comparison to Season two, which in...

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...

Works in fits and starts

"The Zoya Factor" | Works in fits and starts

Director: Abhishek Sharma

Star Cast: Sonam K Ahuja, Dulquer Salmaan

Arom-com centred on cricket would seem like a winning pitch. Sonam K. Ahuja’s new release is less...

Frothy adventure

"Dora and the Lost City of Gold" | Frothy adventure

Director: James Bobin

Star Cast: Isabela Moner, Eva Longoria, Danny Trejo

Despite a strong cast, clean fun with the perils of adventure and teen angst, Director James Bobin’s...

Tried and tested formula

"Typewriter" | Tried and tested formula

Director: Sujoy Ghosh

Star Cast: Palomi Ghosh, Samir Kochhar, Kanwaljit Singh

In our childhood days, all of us believed that ghosts do exist. Firming our childhood beliefs and...

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...

‘Kaafir’ derives power from its political undertones

"Kaafir" | ‘Kaafir’ derives power from its political undertones

Director: Sonam Nair

Star Cast: Dia Mirza, Mohit Raina

Kashmir and its blood-soaked political history renders itself well to cinematic treatment. It is to...

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...

‘Criminal Justice’ better than ‘Sacred Games’

"Criminal Justice" | ‘Criminal Justice’ better than ‘Sacred Games’

Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia and Vishal Furia

Star Cast: Vikrant Massey, Pankaj Tripathi, Mita Vashisht, Jackie Shroff and Pankaj Saraswat

Only 15 minutes into this crime drama, and I was hooked. This, despite having seen the BBC series of...

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,...

Brings the comic book to life

"Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse" | Brings the comic book to life

Director: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman; Voice

Star Cast: Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Cage, Kathryn Hahn, Live Schreiber

For a series and a character that has been rebooted so many times on screen that it is almost...

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