Category: Featured
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Maye Musk Launches Hindi Edition of Her Memoir in Mumbai.
Maye Musk, the mother of tech billionaire Elon Musk, launched the Hindi version of her popular memoir A Woman Makes a Plan at an event in Mumbai. The Hindi edition is titled Jab Aurat Sochti Hai and was released in collaboration with Rajkamal Prakashan. The launch event turned even more special because it was also…
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Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2019: Your guide to the authors and must-attend events at this 12th edition
Selling a literature festival in 2019 is not as straightforward as it used to be. An endeavour made trickier if one is in India, with a dedicated litfest for most major cities and even a few smaller, picturesque towns. Sure, the footfalls have steadily increased and there are few things to match the opportunity of…
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Upcoming Book ‘Night of the Living Dead 1990: The Unseen Version’ Will Present Tom Savini’s Original Vision
As much as horror fans tend to love Tom Savini‘s 1990 version of Night of the Living Dead, a damn fine remake, it’s no secret that the film doesn’t quite represent Savini’s intended vision from the outset. “The movie is about forty percent of what I intended,” Savini once said. “It would be a much better…
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‘Manto Saheb — Friends and Enemies on the Great Maverick’ review: Words on Manto
If you want to read a festschrift with a difference read Manto Saheb. If you want to know how Manto’s contemporaries and fellow writers viewed the maverick in their midst this collection of essays provides multiple mini biographies of a complex, troubled man, one might even say a mad genius. Manto himself has left behind…
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Review:?Reclaim Your Life by Shelja Sen
“Depression happened to ‘other’ people and not to people like me” Haven’t we all thought this way at some point in our lives? That disorders like depression, anxiety and OCD (Obsessive Compulsion Disorder) are problems which are alien to us? They can happen to others but never to us, and when realisation strikes, we are…
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‘Success of Life of Pi surprised me, says author?Yann Martel
Yann Martel, the celebrated author of ‘Life of Pi’ and winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize, was in Gurugram on Tuesday to speak to students at Shri Ram School, Aravali. We caught up with the author on the sidelines of the event. Here are the excerpts: ‘Life of Pi’ continues to garner acclaim and…