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Noah’s arc: Trevor comes and goes
When Trevor Noah realized that the audience in the back at Bangalore's Manpho Convention Centre could not hear him, he refused to tell his jokes. He disappeared from stage.
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In the age of humble brag, A-lists are now DIY
In the brave new world, the ‘in’ status is always in search of a worthy cause; an immediate hierarchy can spring up almost anywhere anytime.
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: A book about books
Tucked away in Jimbocho, Tokyo, the Morisaki Bookshop is filled with hundreds of second-hand books, quietly and gently awaiting Takako’s awareness of them...
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In love with love: Why we can't get enough of romance on screen, in pages... and in real life
Literature and cinema are filled with couples about to fall in love, in the process of falling in love, or in the midst of declaring their love for each other.
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SRK remains Jawan: Bollywood stars are busting a risky career move, and making it work
Aware as they are of their own shelf life, a star absconding from screen for long periods is a suspense thriller of its own. But that is exactly what Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan are doing.
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If looks could kill: Why UK Nurse Lucy Letby, convicted of killing 7 babies, still has supporters
UK nurse Lucy Letby’s unspoken defence lay in sexist, racist and ageist roots.
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Rakhi strategy: In war, dysfunctional families and Bollywood
Rakhi is on August 30, 2023.
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Independence Day 2023 | You’ve come a long way, bhabhi
Toon character Savita Bhabhi, who thrives in her porn pursuits despite censorship, perhaps is the face of a neoliberal post-modern India caught between its traditional past and western examples of liberty.
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Friendship Day 2023: To finding your tribe
Friendship Day is celebrated each year on the first Sunday of August in India.
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Life in plastic, it’s fantastic: Barbie’s story
The world has turned many shades of pink. Even Google got the memo; search results for the film are rose-tinted.
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Milan Kundera and the absurdist in us
Milan Kundera revelled in shocking, in taking away the breath, and leaving nothing for granted. His prose did not entertain fools.
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Tomatoes have gone missing from our juice and salads. It's the latest whodunnit in town
Most desi dishes need tomatoes, from rajma to rasam. Without tamatar, what would we eat?
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Any ‘likes’ for World Social Media Day?
Now that social media is here, there is no remembering the ‘pre’ days.
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Black Mirror Season 6 explained: Reflections of a shattered world
Black Mirror episodes like The National Anthem, The Entire History of You, White Bear, etc., have had differing storylines converging into the same flowing channel of what-could-be and OMG.
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Cormac McCarthy: Show, don’t tell
It was not limelight or lucre that kept American storyteller Cormac McCarthy — who passed away this week — writing book after book but just the urge to write.
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Everyone has a podcast, including fake German heiress Anna Delvey (Sorokin)
Once upon a time she called herself Anna Delvey and pretended to be an heiress; the podcast title evokes the fake name, and of course listener curiosity.
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Vaikom Basheer's Bhargavi Nilayam Vs Aashiq Abu's Neelavelicham: a second haunting
Can remakes ever shake the ghosts of movies past?
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Sex and the Big Oh
In the age of throuples, sexual gratification is fast acquiring the status of destination - no longer a small, unknown station where the train may not stop.
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Will Harry ever be free of the ghost of his mother, Princess Diana?
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's car was reportedly given chase by photographers while they were returning from the Women of Vision Awards in New York on May 16, 2023.
HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
Doctor murdered in Kerala hospital: Who’s on probation, interns or hospital managements?
Could the recent murder of Dr Vandana Das have been avoided? In hindsight, all the glitches are painfully visible.
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The phone and I: Am I the mother of my phone?
People had warned me that life after phone-hood would never be the same. But I was still not prepared for the complete overhaul.
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Tribute: Mamukkoya and his Malabar Malayalam
Mamukkoya was a master of the light touch. A consummate actor who could pare down his words to bare essentials, bringing even to the most populist of comedies his own brand of magic.
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Akshaya Trithiya 2023: When all that glitters is gold
Gold is embedded everywhere: A 50th wedding anniversary is golden. Silence is golden. We have gold standards and golden principles, as also the golden mean courtesy Aristotle.
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Netflix show Beef and road rage in a close-up
India registered over 4.5 lakh cases of road rage and rash driving, with a study identifying Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh as the red-hot road rage states.
