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Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa: A 1957 Tale of Artistic Struggle
‘Pyaasa’s theme was inspired by my father.’ —Lalitha Lajmi [Guru Dutt’s sister] By 1956 Guru Dutt had secured his place as a promising filmmaker with four big successes as a director—Baazi, Aar Paar, Mr & Mrs 55 and C.I.D. The commercial success brought within reach all the dreams that the thirty-one-year-old Guru Dutt had harboured since his days in Calcutta. The time had come to realise these dreams.
Tantalisingly Intertwined and Complex
The Mirror Has Many SidesFor some time, many of us have been looking forward with anticipation to the latest book by Sudeep Chakravarti on the North East, The Eastern Gate: War and Peace in Nagaland, Manipur and India’s Far East. The book essentially focuses on the complex politics and political games in Nagaland and Assam, with a deep dive into the vortex of ethnic and insurgency politics in these states with glimpses of it in Assam and Tripura.
Tola defeats the tiger
There are days when the world will swallow you, life’s enormity will hit you anew from every direction, leaving you groping for answers. Easterine Kire’s writings give you solace in such times, offering an antidote to life’s vagaries. The poet and author from Kohima is back with her new novel, Spirit Nights. It sees Kire at almost her best, crafting a tale of human courage and the spirit world with the grace and succinctness which are her hallmark.
Book excerpt: World Cup jeetna hai - Rohit Sharma’s unfulfilled quest as a cricketer
It was the end of February 2020, and the world hadn’t yet come to terms with the full fury of the Covid-19 virus. Travel in India hadn’t stopped and masks weren’t a feature of our lives just yet. It was India before corona. Rohit Sharma could still walk around in his hotel in Bengaluru posing for photographs with fans, and there was sanity all round. He wouldn’t have to sanitise hands following every handshake, and a hug was the norm and not an exception.
Books of the week: From Saima Mir's The Khan to Savita Hiremath's Endlessly Green, our picks
Our weekly roundup of books that should be on your radar. We love stories, and even in the age of Netflix-and-chill, there's nothing like a good book that promises a couple of hours of absorption — whether curled up in bed, in your favourite coffeehouse, or that long (and tiresome) commute to work. Every week, we'll have a succinct pick of books, across diverse genres, that have been newly made available for your reading pleasure.
Books of the week: From SL Bhyrappa's Brink to Abeer Kapoor's The Most Notorious Jailbreakers, our picks
Our weekly roundup of books that should be on your radar. We love stories, and even in the age of Netflix-and-chill, there's nothing like a good book that promises a couple of hours of absorption — whether curled up in bed, in your favourite coffeehouse, or that long (and tiresome) commute to work. Every Sunday, we'll have a succinct pick of books, across diverse genres, that have been newly made available for your reading pleasure.
Books of the week: From Sakoon Singh's In the Land of Lovers to PV Sindhu’s biography, our picks
Living Aarushi Agrawal Apr 27, 2020 09:43:20 IST We love stories, and even in the age of Netflix-and-chill, there's nothing like a good book that promises a couple of hours of absorption — whether curled up in bed, in your favourite coffeehouse, or that long (and tiresome) commute to work. Every Sunday, we'll have a succinct pick of books, across diverse genres, that have been newly made available for your reading pleasure.
Books of the week: From These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light to VK Krishna Menon's biography, our picks
Living Aarushi Agrawal Dec 08, 2019 09:48:03 IST We love stories and there is nothing like a good book that promises a couple of hours of absorption. Every Sunday, we will have a succinct pick of books, across diverse genres, that have been newly made available for your reading pleasure.
On the Sati and Sufi trail in Pakistan
This is a book that takes the reader to remote and violent corners of Pakistan where the land is marked by the blood of its people. Here, away from the urban centres, superstitions abound and the search for faith is seen as a way out of present circumstances. “All is momentary, all is pain", wrote Qurratulain Hyder in her 1959 novel River Of Fire.
Books of the week | LGBTQIA special: From I’m Afraid of Men to Laxmi Tripathi's Me Hijra, Me Laxmi, our picks
Living Aarushi Agrawal Sep 08, 2019 09:59:04 IST We love stories and there's nothing like a good book that promises a couple of hours of absorption Every Sunday, we'll have a succinct pick of books, across diverse genres, that have been newly made available for your reading pleasure.
Books of the week: From I’m Afraid of Men to Laxmi Tripathi's Me Hijra, Me Laxmi, the best of Indian queer writing
Living Aarushi Agrawal Sep 08, 2019 14:08:18 IST We love stories and there's nothing like a good book that promises a couple of hours of absorption Every Sunday, we'll have a succinct pick of books, across diverse genres, that have been newly made available for your reading pleasure.
Dialogue in an ancient Chinese royal kitchen
New things happen every day in a restaurant, part of the unfolding scroll of time. But when one thinks about it, does anything ever really happen for the first time? Aren’t we all actors in roles that human beings have been playing for thousands of years?
Songs of freedom and resistance
What words, what poetry, can rise to the challenge of giving language to a broken dream?" ponders a character in Githa Hariharan’s I Have Become The Tide. Poetry is resistance in this penetrating novel about the shackles of caste across two time periods. It follows three narratives in Karnataka. The first is set in the 12th century, and tells the story of Chikka, the son of a cattle-skinner and drummer, who flees his village and its caste rigidities after his father’s death.
Students at Delhi University protesting against the increasing number of rape and other crimes against women, in February
For over six years, journalist Priyanka Dubey travelled to some of the most remote corners of the country to report on stories of women who have faced rape, assault, mutilation and gruesome deaths. Documenting the inhuman violence in the rural hinterland, where the “national media” (especially English-language platforms) seldom make inroads, she pieced together narratives that amplify the appalling record of gender justice in India.
The ‘Mercedes Benz’ among cows
Shoba Narayan chronicles her adventures with the bovine kind in India in her new book. Photo: Hindustan TimesChitradurga district is six hours from Bangalore. I am here because my brother-in-law, Krishnan, has an interest in geology. He has brought a metal detector from Florida to hunt for ancient coins in the forts that dot this area. I am accompanying him to scout out, not ancient coins, but the Amrit Mahal cow. Amrit Mahal was a military breed of cow.
#BookReview :: Yes, My Accent Is Real by Kunal Nayyar
Of all the charming misfits on television, there’s no doubt Raj from The Big Bang Theory — the sincere yet incurably geeky Indian-American astrophysicist — ranks among the misfittingest. Now, we meet the actor who is every bit as loveable as the character he plays on TV.
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