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'I think you are hell-bent on shutting down my magazine'

Cho... Anything but Tughlaq 'Funny, eccentric and idiosyncratic.''There will never be another like him.'Rediff.com's Shobha Warrier salutes the man she loved to interview. The way the political......

Here all in silence, let them sleep their sleep

Right in the midst of bustling Kolkata lies what might be the most prominent population of Britons in India.Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/Rediff.com walks through the South Park Street Cemetery. IMAGE:......

'In India, I think people take Diaspora fiction very seriously'

Author Ranbir Singh Sidhu’s book Good Indian Girls is a departure from the themes that define ‘Indian Diaspora fiction’, finds Chaya Babu Are there characteristic markers of......

'Cats and writers are both completely off their heads'

'The cruelty to animals only reflects the modern, urban Indian contempt for any creatures -- animal or human -- who are voiceless and powerless and unable to fight back,' novelist Nilanjana Roy......

Vaihayasi P Daniel speaks to William Dalrymple

India has probably just one Punjabi Scotsman. Writer and historian William Dalrymple lives in eccentric, oddball-style outside Delhi in a rambling bungalow in Mehrauli. He shares his home with......

Curry Westerns Move To Rajasthan

Even as our tier-2 and tier-3 cities become increasingly well-mapped, and well-documented through myriad tech-driven data, the Indian film-maker's dominantly urban gaze turns to regions not crowded......

Review: Island City is a compelling film about Mumbai

Island City should not be missed, raves Aseem Chhabra. Ruchika Oberoi's Island City is set in that massive, over-populated island city called Mumbai. The characters that reside in the three......

The top 5 Hindi films of 2015

'2015,' says Sreehari Nair, 'gave us a set of Hindi films that brought to light the true uncorrupted joys of filmmaking even in their roughness.' 'Films which told us why we loved films in the......

Review: Salim is an engaging thriller

Vijay Antony’s Salim is all about how an honourable man strikes back when he is pushed to breaking point, says S Saraswathi. Goodness is no longer considered a valuable trait these......

Review: Ramanujan is a must watch

Director Gnana Rajasekaran’s Ramanujan is a well researched, well-written and brilliantly directed film dedicated to India’s mathematical prodigy, Ramanujan, whose genius hung like......

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'I think you are hell-bent on shutting down my magazine'

Here all in silence, let them sleep their sleep

'In India, I think people take Diaspora fiction very seriously'

'Cats and writers are both completely off their heads'

Vaihayasi P Daniel speaks to William Dalrymple

Curry Westerns Move To Rajasthan

Review: Island City is a compelling film about Mumbai

The top 5 Hindi films of 2015

Review: Salim is an engaging thriller

Review: Ramanujan is a must watch

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