Baba, Bollywood, Bishnoi and Brand Mumbai: How a Politician’s Murder Shook Mumbai’s Power Corridors
In this photograph taken in July 2013, then Congress leader Baba Siddique is flanked by actors Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan at an Iftar party in Mumbai. | Photo Credit: PTI This story has all the elements of a crime thriller. Former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique (66) was killed
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The restless traveller: A vignette | A Bengali Story in Translation
He was walking through an impassable thorny way. At one stage he turned back and saw millions of steadfast gazes fixed upon him. An incandescent lustre of seething excitement and expectation radiated from those gazes. It filled the traveller’s heart with an intoxicating pride. With a smile of profound satisfaction,
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Bookshelf | New Books on the Shelves This Fortnight (November 1, 2024)
Francis Itty Cora T.D. Ramakrishnan, translated by Priya K Nair HarperCollins India Rs.399 This Malayalam classic is a genre-bender combining history, myth, mystery and magic. Set in present-day Kerala, war-torn Iraq, ancient Alexandria, and Renaissance Florence, the novel is a romp through history. ___ Jahanara Sukumaran Eka Rs.399 Shah Jahan’s
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Baburao Bagul’s ‘Lootaloot’: A Deep Dive into the Struggles of the Oppressed in Mumbai
In the titular story of Baburao Bagul’s classic short story collection Maran Swasta Hot Aahe (Death is Becoming Cheap)—published in Marathi in 1969 and now available in translation as Lootaloot—a poet and short story writer walks through the city in search of a muse but finds, instead, sordid stories of the dispossessed. “This
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Charlie Chaplin: Keeping a comedy genius in business
Do icons need agents? Well, when it comes to Charlie Chaplin, the answer is, Yes! The film legend was born in England, made his most important films in Hollywood and spent his last decades in Switzerland. Yet, it is on a quiet street in Paris not far from the Louvre