by Rajesh C.Oza | Jul 10, 2016 | Books, Entertainment
FLOOD OF FIRE. By Amitav Ghosh. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. 616 pages. $20.42 Hardcover. In the epilogue to Flood of Fire, Amitav Ghosh cleverly makes mention of some 50 sources which have informed his novel. I imagine that few, if any, of these were likely to...
by Geetika Pathania Jain | Jul 8, 2016 | Books, Entertainment
WHAT LIES BETWEEN US. By Nayomi Munaweera. St. Martin’s Press, 2016. 320 pages. $18.11 Hardcover. It was with pleasure and anticipation that I learned that Nayomi Munaweera has written a second book. Reading her first book Island of a Thousand Mirrors in 2014, I had...
by Vandana Kumar | Jul 5, 2016 | Entertainment, Fiction
Thank you to all for submitting your story to Katha Literary Fiction Contest 2016. As the judges can attest, it was a very tough job to identify the finalists. The judging was completely blind. To all the writers who submitted, it is important to keep in mind that a...
by Mallika Padmanabhan | Jul 4, 2016 | Entertainment, Fiction
“Tea chahiye?” I smiled and nodded before slipping a pen into the book of crossword puzzles. Of course I wouldn’t pass up a cup of my mother’s chai, not on a rainy day like this: water winding in rivulets down the window panes, pattering against the roof and sides of...
by Aniruddh C. | Jul 2, 2016 | Entertainment, Films
UDTA PUNJAB. Director: Abhishek Chaubey. Players: Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Diljit Dosanjh, Satish Kaushik, Harpreet Singh, Prabhjyot Singh. Music: Amit Trivedi.. Hindi and Punjabi with Eng. sub-tit. Theatrical release (Balaji) Over the years, there...
by Vandana Kumar | Jun 30, 2016 | Entertainment, Films
Vinod Kapri’s Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho is a bumpy ride through the interiors of Haryana. Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho is a Indian political satire film directed by Vinod Kapri. Inspired by true events, the film centers on a love story set in a village of Haryana. The...
