Culture
Games Indians play but don’t perform too well
A new book by Boria Majumdar and Nalin Mehta is as much...
Fran Drescher, millennial whisperer
Fran Drescher’s voice, if you ever have the chance to hear it deployed in very close vicinity over shrimp tempura...
Weak plot, annoying narrative confuse viewers
“Are you here for fun or peace?” asks a character to another in Mohit Suri’s Malang. It’s a question that...
We are still obsessed with Britney Spears
Welcome to a Britney Spears fantasy land: the Britney of the past, the Britney we want her to be. Britney...
Alice Mayhew, editor of a who’s who of writers, dies at 87
Alice Mayhew, a widely admired editor who shepherded into print bestsellers by a veritable who’s who of writers—along the way...
A book so far ahead of its time, it took 87 years to find a publisher
Claude McKay’s novel Romance in Marseille deals with queer love, postcolonialism and the legacy of slavery. It also complicates ideas...
The ultimate guide to startup success in 2020
Talent acquisition and retention are integral to the success of an organisation. So is the brand image of the employer....
Up close, there’s more to the Ghent Altarpiece than the Lamb
The massive work, created from 20 paintings on the front and back of 12 panels, is an astounding work of...
Searching for strange in a normal, believable world
Author Shreya Sen-Handley recounts stories of ordinary people whose lives have taken a sharp and unusual turn, thus making a...
