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High Sir, a review of Adithya Dhar’s Uri: The Surgical Strike

By Avantika Srivastava January 26, 2019January 28, 2019 In Culture, Film, Film Review 0 Avantika Srivastava, Bollywood 2019 3

Among the spate of semi-propaganda films released over the last month, with Thackeray being the latest, Uri, Adithya Dhar’s most recent offering appears to be the most watchable of them all.

Anita Nair’s new novel Eating Wasps takes a clear look at the tough choices Indian women make

By Avantika Mehta November 29, 2018 In BOOK REVIEW, Books, Culture 0 Anita Nair, avantika mehta 0

Anita Nair’s latest novel, Eating Wasps is clear, concise and insightful. The book starts with 30-year-old Sreelakshmi’s suicide on a “Monday.

#BookReview: Night Of Happiness By Tabish Khair

By Avantika Mehta September 27, 2018September 19, 2018 In BOOK REVIEW, Books, Culture 0 A Night Of Happiness, Atta Galatta Fiction Prize Long List 0

How much does the Hindu majority of India think about its privilege? How long before prejudices we think of as beneath us bubble up to the surface?

Meet TheMXXNLight: Identical Twins, RnB Duo Who Are All Over Wiz Khalifa’s New Album

By Avantika Mehta September 19, 2018 In Culture, Music 0 Interview, RnB duo 0

Akash and Krish Chandani aka TheMxxnLight are 22-year-old identical twins who make unique, irresistibly sexy RnB music.

#BookReview: Mahesh Rao’s Polite Society Uses Jane Austen’s Emma To Tell A Different Story

By Avantika Mehta September 4, 2018September 14, 2018 In BOOK REVIEW, Books, Culture 0 Emma, Jane Austen 0

It is a dangerous business to adapt a Jane Austen novel. Not only because the woman still has stans but because,

#BookReview: Half The Night Is Gone by Amitabha Bagchi Is More Than A Review Of Our Past

By Avantika Mehta August 11, 2018 In BOOK REVIEW, Books, Culture 0 Amitabha Bagchi, avantika mehta 0

Amitabha Bagchi’s latest novel is a thoroughly Indian story. The two threads that run through this tale include the letters from a narcissistic author to his loved ones that details life in India in the 1970s and 80s,