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CAST Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson | DIRECTOR Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

At some point in the movie, a certain detachment sets in, and no matter how admiring you may be of this 2.0

Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl | Ratna Kapur | Edward Elgar Publishing | 328 pages | £90

Alternate Realties

Books
By Rajshree Chandra

Why the Human Rights project needs to be rescued

Anita Dube, curator of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Painting Utopia at Kochi Biennale

Art & Culture
By Rosalyn D’Mello

The fourth edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale exudes utopic candour

Henry Eliot: ‘There is something comforting about the classics when you feel uncertain about your own time’

Books
By Nandini Nair

Editor and author Henry Eliot tells how literature expands our experience of what it means to be human

CAST Sanjay Mishra, Kajal Jain, Chandrachoor Rai | DIRECTOR Pavan Kumar Chauhan

Ekkees Tareekh Shubh Muhurat Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

The execution of the film, especially in the latter half, lacks logic, aesthetics, and even basic cinema se

Carlo Pizzati: Intimate Stranger

Books
By Urvashi Bahuguna

Being an Italian son-in-law in India

Cosmic Enchantment

Books
By Jaideep Unudurti

Once again inside the Black Hole with Stephen Hawking

Staggering Forward: Narendra Modi and India’s Global Ambition | Bharat Karnad | Viking | 512 Pages | Rs 599

Some Home Truths

Books
By Bharat Karnad

The author of 'Staggering Forward: Narendra Modi and India’s Global Ambition' responds to Ravi Jos

CAST Saif Ali Khan, Radhika Apte, Rohan Mehra, Chitrangada Singh | DIRECTOR Gauravv K. Chawla

Baazaar Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

So like the stock market, this movie fluctuates. It is not bullish.

CAST Rajkummar Rao, Nargis Fakhri | DIRECTOR Namrata Singh Gujral

5 Weddings Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

With little to recommend it, in terms of entertainment or art, the film can be given a miss.

Gary Shteyngart: ‘I love characters in decline’

Books
By Tishani Doshi

The new novel by Gary Shteyngart's Lake Success is more ouch-funny than ha-ha funny

Survival Guide

Books
By Aresh Shirali

Raghavan Jagannathan argues for a new deal

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with (L-R) South African President Jacob Zuma, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brazilian President Michel Temer at the annual BRICS Summit in Xiamen, China, 2017

Modi and the World

Books
By Ravi Joshi

The author in his haste is too blinded by the negatives to see the achievements

Guns Versus Butter

Books
By Siddharth Singh

The world of rebel violence is better understood through data and empirical studies than ideological concer

Magical Realism

Books
By Vineetha Mokkil

The wonder that is India

CAST Neena Gupta, Ayushmann Khurrana, Gajraj Rao | DIRECTOR Amit Ravindernath Sharma

Badhaai Ho Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

From a comedy of situation, with which it begins, the film turns into an uplifting and affecting bonding of

A Bid For History

Art & Culture
By Rosalyn D’Mello

The shredding of Banksy’s work at an auction shows that to destroy is to create

Let them own their land, Benitha Perciyal

Down to Earth

Art & Culture
By Avantika Bhuyan

Sculptors go hyperlocal in their portraits of India

The Plot Thickens

Books
By Ullekh NP

Mario Vargas Llosa’s new novel has his trademark cliffhangers

Queen of the World

Books
By Swapna Liddle

The female power of the Mughal Empire

Anita Desai: Insider Outsider

Books
By Rajni George

The Mexico of Anita Desai has an Indian core that remains resonant to this day

CAST Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy | DIRECTOR Damien Chazelle

First Man Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

CAST Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy | DIRECTOR Damien Chazelle

CAST Sohum Shah, Deepak Damle | DIRECTOR Rahi Anil Barve

Tumbbad Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

CAST Sohum Shah, Deepak Damle | DIRECTOR Rahi Anil Barve

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi: ‘To be truly adult is to be child-like’

Books
By Urvashi Bahuguna

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi has written a fable of arranged marriages and spiritual quests

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