Piku Director: Shoojit Sircar Starring: Deepika Padukone, Amitabh Bachchan, Irrfan Khan, Raghuvir Yadav, Moushumi Chatterjee, Jishu Sengupta 3.5/5 There’s much to be said for the benefits of a satisfactory morning dump. It is the best cure for hangovers; much more
Baba Remedy made headlines this month with the launch of his Putrajeevak Beej, seeds that he claims can produce sons. There is a big demand for boys in India, and Baba Remedy has cannily tapped into this free market
Recently, I travelled on the Delhi Metro on two separate occasions, each time with a female friend. Both are self-proclaimed feminists. Both champion the cause of women emancipation. Both will retweet the statement, “If you are not a feminist, you
There is no real recipe for success, no magic formula which will guarantee that a book will sell millions and millions of copies and turn its author into a household name. We’ve been told this countless times and yet, there
Gabbar is Back Director: Krish Starring: Akshay Kumar, Shruti Hassan, Suman Talwar, Jaideep Ahlawat, Sunil Grover Rating: 1/5 stars Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.” The slogan of the short-time work
It pains me to say this, but I’m going to begin this column by defending Shobhaa Dé. The uproar about her Marathi cinema tweets has largely died down—although she still may face legal action—such is the nature of the 24-hour
All night her body had been feverish. Tossing and turning on the mattress, she had tried a hundred thousand ways to distract her mind from focusing on the pain. Every time a big surge of the excruciatingly churning pain came,
The first time I lost myself in Delhi, I was seven. I stood at the gates of the Lotus Temple, convinced that my parents had left me behind. Thirty minutes later, my mother rushed towards me and enveloped me in
A high handed, moody, often fussy and illogical a chronicler, this memory is. What you should want to forget only ever resurges, over and over again, your attempt to forget mocked by the opposite of what you wish for. If
Many political words have wildly divergent and sometimes contradictory meanings—socialist, libertarian, communitarian, conservative, liberal, centrist, leftist, fundamentalist, radical, even anarchist—which should be simple and self-explanatory but are not always incontrovertible. Yet, none draws quite the fire for being “inconsistent” or