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July 22, 2020

Bookshelf – Early Reads: Midnight at Malabar House | Vaseem Khan

Vaseem Khan's Midnight at Malabar House drops on the 20th of August. I had a chance to read the book pre-release.
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Published on July 22, 2020 06:18

July 12, 2020

Cinephile Stock: Greyhound | Aaron Schneider

Tom Hanks returns to World War 2 in Aaron Schneider's war-at-sea film.
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Published on July 12, 2020 06:30

June 26, 2020

Cinephile Stock: Bulbbul | Anvita Dutt

Netflix India's latest is a gothic folktale which doesn't quite rise to the occasion.
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Published on June 26, 2020 23:47

June 5, 2020

Off the Shelf: Quarantine Edition

Quarantine was not super-productive, but I did read these nine books.
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Published on June 05, 2020 21:00

April 28, 2020

Off the Shelf: Rebus by Rankin

Novels four to nine of the John Rebus series by Ian Rankin
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Published on April 28, 2020 08:30

March 22, 2020

Off the Shelf: February 2020

Japan, USA, Germany and Austria....not just the countries where Coronavirus has hit but also the homes of the writers I read in February.
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Published on March 22, 2020 21:00

February 9, 2020

Cinephile Stock: Little Women | Greta Gerwig

Greta Gerwig takes a look at "Little Women".
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Published on February 09, 2020 05:14

February 8, 2020

Cinephile Stock: Shikara | Vidhu Vinod Chopra

A film about the Kashmiri Pandits
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Published on February 08, 2020 20:30

February 6, 2020

Off the Shelf: January 2020

Off the Shelf January 2020 I begin the first of this year’s “book-reading” accounts with a bit of a hope with regard to what I wish to achieve vis a vis reading this year: a greater balance between fiction and non-fiction is the first, a greater number of women writers’ works to be devoured, and the most far-fetched one of the lot – to read …
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Published on February 06, 2020 04:32

January 18, 2020

Cinephile Stock: 1917 | Sam Mendes

A riveting war epic!
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Published on January 18, 2020 04:00