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A Light Tale

In his new book, Elevation, Stephen King writes in his own unique way about intolerance and how one man rises above it all in a way the reader would not be able to imagine or ...

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Mothers Sing Best

Ishitta Arun, daughter of singer-actress-theatre maker Ila Arun, wanted to establish her own theatre group, Ikigai & Co., and do productions quite different from the ...

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The Secret Library

Spanish writer Carlos Luis Zafon has completed his Cemetery of Forgotten Books series with a fourth novel, The Labyrinth of the Spirits, an epic that ...

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All’s Fair In Love?

Florian Zeller is a popular French playwright, whose works have been translated into English by Christopher Hampton (who also translated Yasmina Reza’s plays). The ...

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Reluctant Femme Fatale

Most books about espionage have men running about doing the cloak and dagger stuff, occasionally running into a femme fatale for diversion. But there were many women who also ...

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Small Is In

There are so many small performance spaces in the city now that it is possible to experiment with content and presentation. At a show of Love Matters, audiences are invi...

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Rapp vs Russia

These days, a popular fictional character does not die when his (or her) creator does; so when Vince Flynn, writer of bestselling political thrillers passed away in 2013, Kyle...

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Strangers on a Train

There is something romantic about train travel, which is probably why so many love stories begin when two people embark on a journey in a train.  So many novels and films...

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Strike Four

Under the pen name Robert Galbraith, JK Rowling (who hasn't heard of Harry Potter?) writes crime thrillers with a one-legged detective, Cormoran Strike, and his smart partner ...

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Secrets & Lies

Can an outwardly stable and happy marriage be built on the foundation of a lie? What happens when a 48-year-old marriage falls apart? Saurabh Shukla’s new play, Jab...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: REVERSING ROLES IN CHAALCHITRA EKHON

‘Chaalchitra Ekhon’ serves as a reflective piece on the generational shift f...

May 22 2024

FESTIVALS: NANAD BHABHI TAKE UP THE CHALLENGE SAYS ZAIKAK

Homemakerz has achieved a reasonable retail turnover every month, in Mumbai, Pune, Goa, ...

May 21 2024

POLITICS: MISSING GIRLS AND HATE SPEECHES

After we are done celebrating mothers, daughters, women, take a moment to consider these...

May 19 2024