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...
by Rajesh C.Oza | Jun 16, 2016 | Books, Entertainment
TWO YEARS EIGHT MONTHS AND TWENTY-EIGHT NIGHTS. By Salman Rushdie. Hamish Hamilton by Penguin Books India, 2015. 286 pages Yes, the title of this review says it all: Salman Rushdie’s latest novel is about people finding their way away from God, courtesy of a War of...
by Jeanne E. Fredriksen | Jun 15, 2016 | Books, Entertainment
SOPHIA–Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand. New York: Bloomsbury USA bloomsbury.com. anitaanand.com. 432 pages. Exhumed from obscurity, Princess Sophia Duleep Singh (1876-1948) is celebrated in Anita Anand’s ambitious but often-didactic biography,...
