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An 'unapologetic' author, who didn't write to 'please an audience'

 Celebrated for his extensive commentary on both, colonisers and colonised, in fiction and non-fiction, V S Naipaul walked the controversy tightrope, admired for his prose but scorned by those who......

Naeem Murr wins C'wealth Prize

 The Perfect Man, a novel by Naeem Murr about an abandoned Anglo-Indian child, has won the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book Award for Europe and South Asia Region. Hisham Matar's In the......

A Film About Sex Not Seen In India Before

 'Agra is about sexuality and sexual repression, and the relationship of sexuality to the physical spaces that we are in.' IMAGE: Priyanka Bose as Priti and Mohit Agarwal as Guru in Agra. In 2014,......

It's festival time in Toronto!

 In Sedigh Barmak's Osama, winner of two awards at the Cannes International Film Festival, a 12-year-old Afghan girl must marry an elderly mullah so that shecan continue to live. The controversial......

The BEST International Films of 2021

 2021 may go down in the history of world cinema as having produced the largest number of good quality films from across the world. What is remarkable is that practically all of these films were......

Mistress: Aishwarya's best work?

 A few years before they wrote and directed their 2003 hit film Bend it Like Beckham, the husband and wife team of Paul Meyeda Berges and Gurinder Chadha were given a novel written by a new author,......

Anupam Kher lands role in Robert De Niro film

 While Amitabh Bachchan is shooting for his first Hollywood project The Great Gatsby in Australia, veteran actor Anupam Kher announced this morning that he will be sharing screen space with......

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 India held the top position in the ICC Men's Test Team Rankings while Australia secured the...

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GUJARAT, HIMACHAL GO TO POLLS

 The Bharatiya Janata Party was on Thursday poised for a landslide victory in Gujarat to retain...
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