THE RITE OF PASSAGE

“Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains” quoted Jean Jacques Rousseau, the famous French philosopher. The history of mankind has been the history of ev...

The Right To Life

Watching a few clips of Blue Natalie, an Israeli Television series left me disturbed with the emotionally rough scenes of women being herded on to a yatch and then shoved d...

SAAS BAHU AND TRADITION

??India lives in her villages,? is a quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. ?This isn't the exact quote, though. Gandhiji actually wrote, ?India is not Calcutta and Bombay. In...

WILL TRADITION EVER TRANSITION

“Even a stopped Watch showscorrect timetwice a day” bespoke an optimist.

It is a matter of contemplation whether the same holds true for the march of ti...

A JUDICIAL MILESTONE

Last Sunday night, after the Roop Kanwar case, Bhanwar went back to another landmark in judicial history. The last jury trial in India. In the...

Peter Gabriel Speaks Up For Mental Health Campaign

Peter Gabriel has joined The Times’ Time To Mind mental health campaign in the UK by speaking about his own battles with depression. “One in four of us will suf...

“Marriage – Bond or Bondage”

“Are you married?” the Hollywood actress was asked on a TV show.

“Sometimes!” she answered.

The response is one amongst the variant ...

Wild

Critics rating:  2.5 Stars

Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Thomas Sadoski

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WATCH OUT FOR MAHA ACTION

What?s interesting on television is the presence of authentic firang actors playing firang roles. Earlier, Tom Alter was invariably cast as the foreign hand in Hindi films;...