These criminals cut a sorry figure
Dandupalya Kannada (A)Cast: MakarandDeshpande, Ravi Kale, Ravishankar, Pooja Gandhi and othersDirector: Srinivas RajuThe director was not off the mark when he declared Dandupalya an entertainer, before...
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Hindi (U/A)Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Sonu Sood, Neha Dhupia, Amit Sadh, Vinay PathakDirector: Kabeer KaushikRating: Above AverageIf you ever get the opportunity to meet Kabeer Kaushik, the director of...
View ArticleA bird's eye view
I have never been particularly lucky with bird sightings. Somehow, every time I've visited a bird sanctuary, my sightings were never anything extraordinary. However, this trend seems to have changed...
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On a recent visit to the US, I had a glimpse of two of nature's marvellous faces. Whereas one is nature's own authentic face, the other is man's sincere efforts to replicate nature. I am talking about...
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Kalpana Sunder visits the Spanish town of Segovia in the Iberian Peninsula, a region that boasts of a functioning Roman Aqueduct and the 'Sleeping Beauty' castle.It's my 'Rapunzel' moment...I am...
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While exploring the streets and monuments of Lahore, I happened to enter the replica of Delhi's Jama Masjid in Lahore, known as Badshahi Masjid. The only difference between the Delhi and Lahore mosques...
View ArticleLeave of absence
The days I bunked school, I waited for it to get over, for friends to return home and after quickly having whatever it was that had to be had — lunch, mother's scolding — call to...
View ArticleLincoln lore
On a visit to the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park, sujoy dhar takes a trail back to Lincoln's time, through a replica of the famed log cabin, the mysterious Sinking Spring and a...
View ArticlePitch perfect
What would be your expectations before flipping through the pages of a fast-bowler's autobiography? Tales of fractured limbs and spots of blood, anecdotes of battles won against the best of batsmen...
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Most Indian bureaucrats are shirkers, willing to act only when it suits them. But, as former Chief Justice of India, M N Venkatachaliah, says in his foreword to this book, its brilliant and enlightened...
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olympics: the india storyBoria Majumdar and Nalin MehtaHarper Collins, 2012, pp 391, 499Drawing from previously unused archival sources, this book demonstrates that India was an important strategic...
View ArticleMemories in exile
'Seeking Palestine' shines light on the emotional landscape of second and third generation Palestinians in search of new beginnings, writes Revathi Siva KumarTo the average Indian, Palestine is not...
View ArticleCarrying the tradition forward
As we sat swapping stories about growing up in Assam, over a cup of tea and a plate of scrumptious Til Pithas, (rice pancakes filled with sesame seeds and jaggery) a popular Assamese snack, I realised...
View ArticleGrowing up is tricky
Just how fast is Justin Bieber allowed to grow up? And how much? Bieber, the defining teen star of recent years, turned 18 in March and has been in the public eye for almost four years, long enough to...
View ArticleTribal charms
The blank handmade paper, placed in front of Goverdhan, awaits the moment he picks up his sleek brush and dexterously begins to transfer ideas, spawning in his mind, on it. There is no rough sketch,...
View ArticleThe glitter of gold on glass
Thewa art is a secret, traditional and rare Rajasthani art of embossing intricate and finely carved sheet of gold onto molten coloured glass. The word thewa literally means setting. The exact origin of...
View ArticleGlued to paper
V VRamani's exploration of the possibilities of collage art is perhaps unparalleled. It wakes your vision to new possibilities of perception, writes hema vijay.A hundred years back from now, in the...
View ArticleMaster storyteller
May 10, 1946. An august gathering of filmmakers had assembled at the first ever Cannes Film Festival to showcase their works to an enlightened audience, which genuinely appreciated cinema. This...
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It is not often that a director making a trilingual decides to cast the same heroine in all the three versions. And when the actress concerned is a greenhorn taking baby steps in cinema, the...
View ArticleA good dose of fun
Rajiv Vijayakar speaks to the cast of Rohit Shetty's latest project, 'Bol Bachchan'. This energetic entertainer, which releases on July 6, promises to be quite a laugh riot.A pehelwan and his sister;...
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