The King is Surely Back
Don 2 MOVIE REVIEW Cast: Shah Rukh Khan. Priyanka Chopra, Boman Irani, Lara Dutta, Kunal Kapoor, Om Puri Music- Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Direction: Farhan Akhtar Rating: 4/5 Sleek, Stylish, Sexy. Don 2 is all of this. When the promos claimed ‘The King is Back’, you couldn’t help but expect a lot of thrills and chills from this sequel...
Uncle Tungsten
Memories of a Chemical Boyhood Author : Oliver Sacks Rating- 4/5 From his earliest days, Oliver Sacks, the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time and the author of this illuminating and poignant memoir, was irresistibly drawn to understanding the natural world. Born into a large family...
The Dirty Picture
MOVIE REVIEW RATING - 2.5/5 Raunchy? Yes! Bold? Very! Good? No! Milan Luthria’s The Dirty Picture, is easily one of the boldest films you have seen recently. But how I wish it could have been ‘one of the best’. It is very clear after watching the film that the makers’ foremost priority was to shock...
The Buddha of Suburbia – a novel by Hanif Kureishi
Sometime before the world began perceiving him as a once-brilliant success-cliché who’d simply gone stark raving mad and taken to penning scathing novellas about intolerable ex-wives, Hanif Kureishi produced his debut novel The Buddha of Suburbia – a curiously satirical work that drew almost entirely from Kureishi’s own tumultuous teenage years growing up in the suburbs of South London....
Top 5 ways of Taking Over India
5. Get everyone to play Big Boss (reminiscent of 1984, perhaps?) 4. Get Amir Khan to make a movie about how awesome your rule would be. That should convince everyone through discussions in newspapers, news channels etc. 3. Pretend to have a highly contagious disease and threaten to sneeze if everyone doesn’t give in to...
Independence Day Special
Books On Independence Day, la grande dame decided that this Independence Day issue would treat the day not only as some sort of day of reverence in honour of the country, but also talk about the liberated spirit. Two books that talk about absolute opposites in that sense are Train to Pakistan and 1984. Khushwant...
Sex Amma
Q. Dear Amma, I am going to marry the next month. So can you help me in explaining ’veginitty’ ? A. Aww marriages always make me cry! Congratulations young man. But aiyyo, you make virginity sound like a McVeggie burger! Virginity has been claimed to be every woman’s secret treasure, the golden lotus, her pride....
Spo(r)tlight
It was a week where controversies dominated the proceedings. Commonwealth Games were in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons and so was Michael Schumacher, overshadowing the build up to the soccer season and some sober cricket for the gentlemen. Nonetheless, we bring you all the transfer news, the drama, the adrenaline, the obvious and...
Sex Amma
Q. Amma I have been in a serious relationship for a year but I haven’t “done it”. My boyfriend has been very understanding. I always tell him I’m not in the mood, but actually I’m not confident about my body. I have this crazy idea that he’ll laugh the first time he sees me like...
WOTS: Cheenos
Established in 2008, Cheenos kicked off as a tattoo studio in Shahpurjat. It has since come a long way to becoming Cheenos Tattoos|Cafe|Hookahs. After their first base, they have recently opened a new outlet in the prime location of sector 18, Noida. And it has only become bigger and better. The first thing that strikes...
The Sound of Epic
Some films have epic written all over them. Not the fake accents and absurd costumes mythological crass kind of epic, but the “DAMN that’s cool its awesomeness makes me tingle” kind of epic. I’m thinking Star Wars, Pulp Fiction, The Dark Knight….you get the drift. And IMO, the soundtrack has a huge role in defining...
Candid Canvas
Simren Singh B.A Programme 2nd year Lady Shriram College for women
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