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Difficult Daughters
Neil Simon (along with Moliere) must be the most popular western playwright whose works are adapted (often plagiarized) on the Mumbai stage. There is something about so many ...
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Call him the Kabuliwala or Bioscopewala, that image of a tainted outsider waiting to commit dastardly crimes against children is common to all cultures. The perpetrator howeve...
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If it’s London, it’s Oxford Street, that manic shopping centre where the stilleto-heeled trot by starving musicians, one of whom asks me, “Where I’m fr...
Read MoreLove Hurts And Love Heals
When Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits came in 1985, it became an international bestseller. The Chile-born, California-settled author&rs...
Read MoreThe Perils of the Use and Abuse of Social Media
Humans, by nature, have loved to communicate and share stories and views since the beginning of time. Who would have thought even 20 years ago that email and social media will...
Read MoreThe Ever Self-indulgent Bollywood Marketing
It is well known that in spite of producing the largest number of films in the world, the health of the industry is not very sound. With a success rate of mere 10% there is no...
Read MoreThe Evil Within
Atul Satya Koushik has written and directed two plays based on mythology before – Chakravyuh and Draupadi—and his strength is clearly in his wr...
Read MoreLife is Brutal
Lisa Genova’s Every Note Played is about courage, but also states a brutal fact—there is no nobility in suffering. Some diseases strike without warning, ...
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I have changed many addresses in life as an itinerant. When I click life@57, it is my first address in life and its smell, taste, sight and sound that surfaces from the cradle...
Read MoreThe Man With Two Faces
In today’s fractured world, a white-skinned Urdu-speaking man would either be a suspect or an asset. Most of David Coleman Headley’s life was spent in t...
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This one revisits Shah Rukh Khan’s early days through Monojit Lahiri’s recol...
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Khalid Mohamed assesses the now accessible 1969 documentary, Phantom India, helmed by th...
November 4 2025TV: WHEN FRAGRANCE BECAME THE TEACHER
In its first edition, Surabhi Diaries by Suhail Tatari revisits the beloved 1990s TV phe...
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