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The Halo and the Horns
The book Third Best is author Arjun Rao's debut novel and is all about getting inside the head of a schoolboy who is leading the typical boarding school life and experiencing the realisation of first loves, friendship, trust, and above all, loyalty. The book is fresh and offers
Sustaining Hope
Naysayers prophesise the death of Hindustani classical music. However, some art forms are too beautiful to bow out, gracefully or otherwise, and their fan following does not wane. Meet Aishwarya Natarajan, the director of Indianuance, an artist management, P.R., and concert programming firm that aims to bridge the gap
Pleasantly Plump
Can you remember that quaint term ‘pleasantly plump’? If you don’t, I don’t blame you, because there really isn’t anything pleasant about the word 'plump' anymore. 'Plump' is an evil word, even more diabolical than 'fat', because of the condescension it
When Feeling Blue Is Patriotic
As the sun shone brightly in the golden sky, the streets wore a deserted look, the traffic lights shone red to no cars, and the occasional honk of a car conspicuous in this numbing silence reminded you of the civilisation this city was ordinarily home to. On a Wednesday, it
Hyphenated
Every time I think about who I am and where I belong to, I always come up with a big, fat hyphen. On one side of the hyphen, it says Indian, and on the other side, Canadian. Yes, that’s my label: Indo-Canadian. Labels are not easy to live with,
Images and Words
From R. K. Laxman’s 'Common Man' in the ‘50s and Pran’s Chacha Chaudhary in the ‘70s to Anant Pai’s Tinkle and Sharad Devrajan’s Spider Man India, cartoons and comics have always been a reflective report card of print media in India. But even before
Comic Conned
So, there was no Stan Lee to open the first ever Comic Con in India. Instead, we got Chacha Chaudhary, Wolverine, Spiderman, Zombie, Kalki, Crime Master Gogo, Batman, Harley Quinn, and Rorschach. They weren't exactly burning down buildings or fighting the bad guys or whatever it is that
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Book Review: Susanna's Seven Husbands
"I watched in fascination as a gigantic Black Widow spider, her body streaked with green and yellow, crept down the veranda wall in the direction of her sleeping husband." Susanna’s beauty and wealth mean that she has no problems finding a husband, but somehow they don’t