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CAST Talitha Bateman, Stephanie Sigman, Anthony LaPaglia | DIRECTOR David F. Sandberg

Annabelle: Creation Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

If you are in the movie for the purpose of being scared out of your wits from the word ‘go', ‘Annabelle: Cr

CAST Ayushmann Khurrana, Rajkummar Rao, Kriti Sanon | DIRECTOR Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari

Bareilly Ki Barfi Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

The film is watchable, but the setting and situations look increasingly passé

Kamila Shamsie: The Migrant as a Metaphor

Books
By Nandini Nair

A new novel by Kamila Shamsie explores the process of belonging

Haunted By the Nation

Books
By Siddharth Singh

In Sugata Bose, the personal and the historical mix ineluctably even if the picture produced is too optimis

Akhil Sharma: ‘I am an Immigrant’

Books
By Nandini Nair

Akhil Sharma takes his readers into the core of human experience

The Original Mrs G

Books
By Manu S Pillai

A portrait of Indira Gandhi as a strong leader and formidable woman

(L-R) Gerald Durrell, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Roald Dahl, Olga Perovskaya

Friends of My Youth

Books
By Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

The best way to know authors is to know them as children

Housekeeping Crisis

Books
By Prabha Chandran

A complex and troubling account of those who serve and those they serve

Aurangzeb and the Denial of Bigotry

Books
By Raman Khanna

Is Aurangzeb really a hero to be commemorated with a road?

CAST: Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr.| DIRECTOR: Jon Watts

Spider-Man: Homecoming Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

Without doubt this is one of the more watchable superhero movies of recent times

CAST: Sridevi, Akshaye Khanna, Nawazuddin Siddiqui| DIRECTOR: Ravi Udyawar

Mom Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

Sridevi’s ‘Mom’ starts off interestingly but her character becomes very one dimensional as the film progres

The seven-part Harry Potter series has sold more than 450 million copies worldwide; (left) JK Rowling

Muggles Want More

Books
By Yamini Lohia

Why Harry Potter retains the magic even twenty years after his sensational debut

Lenin at a rally during the October Revolution

Lenin De-Mummified

Books
By Ullekh NP

Tariq Ali resurrects the Soviet patriarch from distortions of history

In an Unequal World

Books
By Nandini Nair

A novelist’s testament against the social division of India

CAST Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Laura Haddock | DIRECTOR Michael Bay

Transformers: The last Knight Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

The movie is fairly engaging but suffers from torturous repetition of ideas and images

CAST Upen Patel, Shiv Darshan, Natasha Fernandez | DIRECTOR Suneel Darshan

Ek Haseena Thi, Ek Deewana Tha Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

To describe this film as a disappointment, would be an understatement.

Comic as Sage

Books
By Suhrith Parthasarathy

The winner of the 2017 Man Booker International Prize is a wonderfully tailored exploration of the human co

A Difficult Dateline

Books
By Manoj Joshi

A part anthropological, part sociological and part vicarious portrait of a slice of Pakistan

Ruskin Bond: The Solitary Reaper

Books
By Nandini Nair

Ruskin Bond relives his journey from the isolation of childhood to the home he found in the hills

Gulzar’s Ode to the Age of News

Books
By Sumana Roy

The noise of time

CAST Salman Khan, Om Puri, Matin Rey Tangu, Zhu Zhu | DIRECTOR Kabir Khan

Tubelight Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

The movie is a very generalized adaptation of the American film Little Boy

Man on the Run

Books
By Dhruva Jaishankar

A brisk and informative account of Osama bin Laden’s years in hiding after 9/11

CAST Demetrius Shipp Jr., Danai Gurira | DIRECTOR Benny Boom

All Eyez On Me Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

The film lacks the cinematic craft to express the connection between the maker and the audience

CAST Riteish Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi, Rhea Chakraborty | DIRECTOR Bumpy

Bank Chor Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

The stereotypical imagery of Riteish Deshmukh and Vivek Oberoi works against the idea of taking this duo se

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Saif Ali Khan: ‘I am an ambassador for moderate Islam’

Do Gods Lie?