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Jammu & Kashmir: Special Investigation Agency carries out searches in Poonch district

Jammu & Kashmir: Special Investigation Agency carries out searches in Poonch district

4 Nov 2023 11:01 AM IST
The Special Investigation Agency (SIA) carried out searches at a house in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district in connection with a terror-related case...
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Pakistan-based Hizbul terrorist given 30 days to appear for trial in terror funding case in Jammu and Kashmirs Doda

Pakistan-based Hizbul terrorist given 30 days to appear for trial in terror funding case in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda

7 May 2023 11:13 AM IST
Bhaderwah (J&K): Tightening the noose around local terrorists operating from Pakistan, the state investigation agency (SIA) has executed...
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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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On a formidable pulpit
"By Many a Happy Accident" | On a formidable pulpit

Author: M. Hamid Ansari

Publisher: Rupa Publications

Price: 795

Roger Sherman, a founding father of the American Constitution, had observed that ‘if the vice...

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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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Of light and darkness
"The Long Shadows of Life" | Of light and darkness

Author: Ramin Jahanbegloo

Publisher: HarAnand

Price: 495

The Long Shadows of Life is a collection of seventy-one poems of, an Iranian-Canadian philosopher,...

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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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A Culinary Smorgasbord
"Vegetarian Cuisine from the Himalayan Foothills" | A Culinary Smorgasbord

Author: Veena Sharma

Publisher: Niyogi Books

Price: 750

It is not for nothing that the Garhwal region of the Himalayas is referred to as deva bhumi, the...

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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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Indo-China relations Soft Power conundrum
"One Mountain Two Tigers: India, China and the High Himalayas" | Indo-China relations Soft Power conundrum

Author: Shakti Sinha

Publisher: Pentagon Press LLP

Price: 795

Soft Power has moved from being an academic concept to a political buzzword, particularly in the...

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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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Early Parsis of Calcutta
"Pioneering Parsis of Calcutta" | Early Parsis of Calcutta

Author: Prochy N Mehta

Publisher: Niyogi Books

Price: 850

After China banned the opium trade, Parsis diversified into the cotton and jute-manufacturing...

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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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Royal rush returns

"The Crown Season 3" | Royal rush returns

Director: Benjamin Caron, Christian Schwochow, Jessica Hobbs & Sam Donovan

Star Cast: Olivia Colman, Helena Bonham Carter, Tobias Menzies

Season three of ‘The Crown’ could well be the trickiest of all that we have seen so far, many had...

Good performances in a cursed plot

"Hexing" | Good performances in a cursed plot

Director: Christophe Lenoir

Star Cast: Dominique Swain, Ketan Anand, Emma Eliza Regan, Adam Weafer, Zeb Moore, Alicia Mairead Gerrad, Camille Solal, Nigel Mercier, Shane Robinson, Conor Marren, Michael Parle

It’s been a while that I saw Hexing, a horror-drama, and, seriously, even after vexing my grey...

Netflix’s silliest feature to date

"Tall Girl" | Netflix’s silliest feature to date

Director: Nzingha Stewart

Star Cast: Ava Michelle, Luke Eisner

Hold on! In a world plagued by problems such as nuclear warfare and cancer we are supposed to...

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...

The Lion King is visually fascinating

"The Lion King" | The Lion King is visually fascinating

Director: Jon Favreau

Star Cast: Donal Glover, Beyonce, James Earl Jones

For the uninitiated, The Lion King, is the story of Simba, a lion cub, who is dispossessed and made...

‘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 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...

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,...

Performances outshine the narrative

"Zero" | Performances outshine the narrative

Director: Anand L Rai

Star Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Anushka Sharma, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayub, Abhay Deol, Sheeba Chaddha, Bijendra Kala

Here is the sad and frustrating irony of Zero: Told in the safest (read predictable), most...

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...

A slow, immersive character-driven film

"“First Man”" | A slow, immersive character-driven film

Director: Damien Chazelle

Star Cast: Ryan Gosling, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Claire Foy, Corey Stoll, Ciaran Hinds, Christopher Abbott, Patrick Fugit, Ethan Embry, Lukas Haas, Shea Whigham and Pablo Schreiber

Based on the book First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen, this film directed by...

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