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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

CAST Arjun Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Seema Biswas | DIRECTOR Mohit Suri

Half Girlfriend Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

Unfortunately, Half Girlfriend is also a film that inserts a social agenda into the narrative ever

Remains of an ancient building near Firoz Shah Kotla

Delights of Cartography

Books
By Gautam Bhatia

A memorial stroll through the changing history of Delhi

A scene from the film Visaranai, inspired by Lock-Up

Citizen Chained

Books
By Tanul Thakur

A regional classic brings out the dehumanising experience of prison life

Love in the Time of War

Books
By Chatura Rao

A pulp panorama featuring an Air Force romantic

CAST Charlie Hunnam, Eric Bana, Jude Law| DIRECTOR Guy Richie

King Arthur - Legend of the Sword Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

If you are stone cold sober and looking to enjoy a great legend on cinema, you may find you are in the wron

CAST Amitabh Bachchan, Manoj Bajpayee, Amit Sadh, Ronit Roy| DIRECTOR Ram Gopal Varma

Sarkar 3 Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

While the focus is on Bachchan playing the Maharashtrian version of Don Corleone to the hilt, other charact

Hari Kunzru: ‘The border is not a nice place right now for anybody with brown skin’

Books
By Rahul Pandita

A writer in a polarised world.

Being Mortal

Books
By Bunny Suraiya

Sheryl Sandberg’s guide on coping with loss and how to be a better friend

The Perfect Murder

Books
By Zac O’Yeah

A much abused genre in India is reaching a sense of literary maturity

The Parable of a True Muslim

Books
By Mahtab Alam

Through candid and spirited letters to his sons, a father addresses the issues that haunt Islam today

CAST Chris Pratt, Kurt Russell, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel | DIRECTOR James Gunn

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

Unfortunately, Volume 2 ends up more as eulogy than parody

Anees Salim: The Solitary Reaper

Books
By Jai Arjun Singh

Anees Salim first found a licence to fantasise in his hometown of Varkala in Kerala.

CAST Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Anushka Shetty | DIRECTOR S.S. Rajamouli

Movie Review: Baahubali 2 - The Conclusion

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

‘The Conclusion’ is a disappointing follow up to the original ‘Baahubali’

Pirsig and his Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Books
By Lhendup G Bhutia

How a road trip inspired a classic

The Angry Fabulist

Books
By Bhavya Dore

In Prayaag Akbar’s first novel, a mother’s search for her daughter becomes a searing argument against power

The Rajan-Modi relationship was put to intense speculation

The Reverse Bank of India

Books
By Aresh Shirali

An institution that gave up independence on the verge of winning it

Mysterious Minds

Books
By Shylashri Shankar

How Arthur Conan Doyle found the perfect scientific detective

Akbar’s Ghost

Books
By Devapriya Roy

Allan Sealy’s quest for adventure takes a new narrative turn

CAST Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl | DIRECTOR Niki Caro

Movie Review: The Zookeeper’s Wife

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

What the movie is able to do so beautifully is to construct characters, to give them difficult choices, and

CAST Sonakshi Sinha, Kanan Gill, Purab Kohli, Smita Tambe | DIRECTOR Sunhil Sippy

Movie Review: Noor

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

The movie makes you laugh out loud at the sheer naivety of its presentation

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Books: Best of 2016

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

Do Gods Lie?