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Putting every ounce of its energy to eliminate visa wait times in India, says US official.

Putting every ounce of its energy to eliminate visa wait times in India, says US official.

18 Jan 2023 12:32 PM IST
The US is "putting every ounce of its energy" to eliminate the long visa wait time in India, including sending a cadre of consular officers to...
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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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From Hamid to ‘India’
"Hamid: The Story of My Captivity, Survival and Freedom" | From Hamid to ‘India’

Author: Hamid Ansari and Geeta Mohan

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 399

I was shifted to the death-row cell, a place where they kept convicts who had been sentenced to...

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In her own voice
"Lata Mangeshkar in Her Own Voice" | In her own voice

Author: Nasreen Munni Kabir

Publisher: Niyogi Books

Price: 695

Nasreen Munni Kabir (NMK): In which year did you move to Bombay? Lata Mangeshkar (LM): In 1945....

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Into the horizon
"The Kargil Girl: An autobiography" | Into the horizon

Author: Flt Lt Gunjan Saxena (retd) and Kiran Nirvan

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 299

More than a week of tragic losses, confirmed gains and increasing tensions later, I was still flying...

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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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Change from within
"Wasted: The Messy Story of Sanitation in India, A Manifesto for Change" | Change from within

Author: Ankur Bisen

Publisher: Pan McMillan

Price: 699

“The effort to clean India will take a little more than to simply pick up the broom and start...

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Are we humans doomed?
"Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up" | Are we humans doomed?

Author: Tom Phillips

Publisher: Wildfire

Price: 499

A review of Tom Phillips’ book Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up can easily be...

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Entangled in fatal lust
"Shehla Masood : The Murder that Shook the Nation" | Entangled in fatal lust

Author: Hemender Sharma

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: 499

If an urban woman with ‘modern’ sophistication and a ‘questioning’ attitude is killed in our...

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The Sarkari Mussalman
"The Sarkari Mussalman: Life and Travails of a Soldier Educationist (The Meoirs of Lt Gen Zameer Uddin Shah PVSM, SM, VSM (Retd)" | The Sarkari Mussalman

Author: Lt Gen Zameer Uddin Shah

Publisher: Konark Publishers

Price: 695

Born on 15 August 1948 in Bahraich district, Uttar Pradesh, India, Zameer Uddin Shah,...

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A cautionary tale against extremism
"Pureland" | A cautionary tale against extremism

Author: Zarrar Said

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: 599

Zarrar’s Said’s Pureland could well be the postmortem of a nation, torn at its very roots by...

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Into the Wilderness
"Red Birds" | Into the Wilderness

Author: Mohammed Hanif

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Price: 599

With a fallen pilot, an ambitious but floundering teenager and a dog as the three narrators,...

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A relevant film

"Hotel Mumbai" | A relevant film

Director: Anthony Maras

Star Cast: Dev Patel, Anupam Kher, Armie Hammer

An Australian filmmaker has delivered the definitive manifesto on what must surely rank as one of...

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...

Modi biopic not historical, but mythological

"PM Narendra Modi" | Modi biopic not historical, but mythological

Director: Omung Kumar B

Star Cast: Vivek Oberoi, Manoj Joshi and Suresh Oberoi

This is not the Narendra Modi biopic that we’ve all been waiting for. The one that shows this...

A splashy bore

"Student of the Year 2" | A splashy bore

Director: Punit Malhotra

Star Cast: Tiger Shroff, Aditya Seal, Ananya Panday, Tara Sutaria

In a film that runs on and on, almost as fast as its agile leading man, for nearly two and a half...

An insanely, illogically fun science-fiction

"2.0" | An insanely, illogically fun science-fiction

Director: S.Shankar

Star Cast: Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson, Adil Hussain and Sudhanshu Pandey

It’s been a long wait for superstar Rajinikanth’s 2.0, which has finally hit the screens, and it can...

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...

A pop-culture eye candy

"‘Ready Player One’" | A pop-culture eye candy

Director: Steven Spielberg

Star Cast: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Lena Waithe, Win Morisaki, Philip Zhao, Susan Lynch, Hannah John-Kamen, Ralph Ineson, Mckenne Grace, Letitia Wright

The auteur, master of fantasy and sci-fi - Steven Spielberg’s latest offering “Ready Player One” is...

Visually Arresting

"War For The Planet Of The Apes" | Visually Arresting

Director: Matt Reeves

Star Cast: Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn, Toby Kebbell, Gabriel Chavarria, Karen Konoval, Terry Notary, Michael Adamthwaite, Ty Olsson, Dervy Dalton, Sara Canning, Aleks Paunovic, Amiah Miller

“War For The Planet of The Apes” is a visually stunning and emotionally fuelled film. This...

Relatable And Convincing

"wonder woman" | Relatable And Convincing

Director: Patty Jenkins

Star Cast: Gal Gadot; Chris Pine; Robin Wright; Danny Huston; David Thewlis; Connie Nielsen

Accepting a new superhero has always been a challenge, but nevertheless one has been waiting for...

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