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Patience is a survival skill: Twinkle Khanna

Patience is a survival skill: Twinkle Khanna

31 Dec 2024 9:59 PM IST
Twinkle Khanna, known as Mrs Funnybones, has transformed from actor to bestselling author, earning a massive fan following on social media for her dry...
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Theres a perception about me being a serious actor: Pankaj Kapur

There's a perception about me being a serious actor: Pankaj Kapur

11 Sept 2024 12:18 PM IST
New Delhi: Veteran actor Pankaj Kapur said that he would love to take up a comedic role next as he hasn't done something in the lighter space in a...
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One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz reveals memoir title

'One Tree Hill' star Bethany Joy Lenz reveals memoir title

3 March 2024 12:43 PM IST
Los Angeles: Actor Bethany Joy Lenz, best known for her role in the TV drama "One Tree Hill", says her upcoming memoir has been titled "Dinner for...
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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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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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Lamenting the vagaries of fate
"The Promises We Made" | Lamenting the vagaries of fate

Author: Rohan Jain

Publisher: Srishti Publishers

Price: 225

'The Promises We Made' is a romantic novel written by Rohan Jain, an IIT Kanpur (2011-15) and IIM...

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Is dissent necessary?
"Voices of Dissent" | Is dissent necessary?

Author: Romila Thapar

Publisher: Seagull Books

Price: 499

Dissent is, in essence, the disagreement that a person or persons may have with others, or, more...

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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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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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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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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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In between lines
"Off the Shelf" | In between lines

Author: Sridhar Balan

Publisher: Speaking Tiger

Price: 350

Off the Shelf is a book about books. And that is great. A real proof of how far humanity has come as...

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India’s economic wisdom
"Economic Sutra: Ancient Indian Antecedents to Economic Thought" | India’s economic wisdom

Author: Satish Y Deodhar

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 399

Thomas Macaulay famously articulated his colonial prejudice: “A single shelf of a good European...

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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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Raw, gritty and highly engaging

"The Informer" | Raw, gritty and highly engaging

Director: Andrea Di Stefano;

Star Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike, Clive Owen, Common, Ana De Armas, Arturo Crasto, Eugene Lipinski

Directed by Andrea Di Stefano and adapted from Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström’s best-selling...

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...

Humour in a time warp

"Motichoor Chaknachoor" | Humour in a time warp

Director: Debamitra Biswal

Star Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Athiya Shetty

The biggest killjoy for a joke is a situation where you have figured out its punchline long before...

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...

Faulty in parts

"Made In China" | Faulty in parts

Director: Mikhil Musale

Star Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Boman Irani, Mouni Roy

Made In China is symptomatic of what’s often happening in Bollywood right now. They have a concept...

Brilliant performance nails the character

"Joker" | Brilliant performance nails the character

Director: Todd Phillips

Star Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz

For those unaware of the DC comic universe, the Joker is the supervillain who appeared in...

Laugh while it lasts

"Dream Girl" | Laugh while it lasts

Director: Raaj Shaandilyaa

Star Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Annu Kapoor, Nushrat Bharucha

Put a Bollywood leading man in a woman’s garb, and watch the box-office rock. Kamal Haasan did it in...

Facts messed up by fiction

"Batla House" | Facts messed up by fiction

Director: Nikkhil Advani

Star Cast: John Abraham, Mrunal Thakur, Ravi Kishen

In various interviews, the Batla House team has declared that their film is an attempt to seek...

It floats with hope

"Big Little Lies, Season 2" | It floats with hope

Director: Jean-Marc Vallee and Andrea Arnold

Star Cast: Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley

Unless you think of ‘The Godfather Part 2’, very few sequels are given an unconditional thumbs-up ....

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...

A compelling film with social message

"Nakkash" | A compelling film with social message

Director: Zaigham Imam

Star Cast: Inaamulhaq, Sharib Hashmi, Kumud Mishra, Pawan Tiwari, Rajesh Sharma and Gulki Joshi

Religion often creates conflict if not preached and understood properly. Though meant to unite...

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...

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