'Our only child. A Communist.' 'There was an encounter by the police inside this room, five years ago. He was shot in one arm, but managed to escape.' 'Missing since then. May Jesus keep him alive.' A revealing excerpt from Asim Mukhopadhyay's Half Man: A Novel On The Naxal Movement.
While we wait for Batra's latest to drop on Amazon Prime Video on February 11, Sukanya Verma looks at how Bollywood has dealt with affairs of the heart over the years.
The 34-year-old Hyderabadi has not been able to cast her vote in the Telangana Assembly elections on Friday after her name was not on voters' list.
Pilot and author Alkesh Nair shares his fascinating reading list.
The mystery over the death of Padmapriya, wife of Karnataka BJP MLA B Raghupathy Bhat, deepened on Monday with the legislator accusing his friend of "coercing" her even as the state Home Minister maintained that it was a case of suicide after kidnap.
The Baywatch star is in negotiations to join A Kid Like Jake and Isn't It Romantic.
No wonder Meghan Markle fell for Prince Harry :)
The accident occurred when the private boat 'Ma Kamala' was headed to Majuli from Nimati Ghat and the government-owned ferry 'Tripkai' was coming from the riverine island.
'Is a woman's integrity decided on the basis of her wardrobe and sexual confidence?' 'Guilty questions such primitive beliefs and the whole 'she asked for it' mentality,' says Sukanya Verma.
Bibi Jagir Kaur is the first woman to occupy the post of SGPC chief, to which she has been elected for the second time.
Padmarajan's Thoovanathumbikal has become a part of Malayali mythology, just as its maker himself now possesses mythological status.
Cops investigating the case suggest the deceased might have been into some sort of religious practices.
Looking at the Hindi film heroine at her thrilling best.
The mysterious death of a 10-year-old Indian-origin boy, whose body was preserved by his mother inside a bathtub, has taken a horrible turn after a man and woman were found dead in the family's house in Texas.
Scientist are flabbergasted by the video showing an alleged human sacrifice near a Chola period statue gifted to CERN by India.
Left behind after elections will be the Biharis with their stagnant conditions of poor education, poor health infrastructure, poverty, unemployment, division of society and the aftermath of coronavirus. What will remain is the Bihari tenacity, observes Asmita Bihari.
Television channels were ready to plumb below rock bottom in their frenzied prospecting for TRP gold, says Shuma Raha.
'How can the police say that she alone has committed the crime and no other person has done it?'
'Even the most basic water amenities, people like us used every day, didn't exist there at all.'
Addressing BJP workers at a felicitation function after the Bharatiya Janata Party's victory in Bihar elections and various bypolls, he asserted that the only mantra for his party's victory was 'Sabka saath, sabka vikas and sabka vishwas' and also launched a veiled attack on the West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress, saying those who cannot challenge the saffron party democratically have resorted to 'murdering' its workers to realise their goals.
For fun's sake, Sukanya Verma puts together an ambitious, star-studded wish list of actors we'd love to see in all the key roles just in case someone decided to do a Hindi version.
Common symptoms of the novel coronavirus (nCoV) strain, which has infected more than 300 people since the outbreak in Wuhan in December, include respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties, the WHO said
'What this incident must do is provide a renewed impetus to urgently bring in police reforms; changes that will ensure that political patronage and extraneous pressure are reduced to a minimum and allow the police to function independently and honestly,' argues Vivek Gumaste.
Bobby Jasoos works only because of Vidya Balan and the strong supporting cast, says Paloma Sharma.
Sub-Divisional Magistrate Alok Sharma has asked police to find out the cause of poisoning and also to specifically probe murder or suicide angle.
This is a national leadership gone so wrong that India's most powerful prime minister in four decades has personally taken charge of medical oxygen shortages, observes Shekhar Gupta.
Shorgul had the potential to be a great movie but it's a strictly one-time watch, feels Nabilah Husain.
The deputy superintendent of police's arrest has raised questions about the role of collaborators in terror attacks.
Sukanya Verma recaps all the action at this year's MAMI.
'There are girls out there who are gonna feel self accepting through this film because she's someone who just wants to live her own life. She's not a particularly selfish person, or reckless, but well thought.'
Resisting growing clamour, the state government decided to stick to its decision not to refer the case to the CBI.
Sukanya Verma offers some amazing opening scenes in Hindi films that fuels an excitement for what happens next.
Dibakar Banerjee delivers his finest work to date, and Sreehari Nair makes sure to applaud him.
Dipti Sarna had revealed that she was abducted by four men at knife point while she was on her way back home in an auto-rickshaw.
"I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide, but to unify; who doesn't see red states and blue states, only sees the United States," Biden said in his victory speech on Saturday night.
Bengali film Asha Jaoar Majhe is a must watch, a once in the lifetime kind of work that should be supported by film lovers and experienced on the big screen, writes Aseem Chhabra.
Flimsy motives and dispensable characters ensure there's no hope for Tigmanshu Dhulia's disappointing drama, notes Sukanya Verma.
