An investigative journalist goes on a mission to find the true identity of that child in the manger. In a true reporting style, he adopts a planned and systematic approach to tackle this quest. In his journey, he comes across and meets many scholars for arriving his final conclusion. This compact book talks about this […]
What happens when you have the screenplay adopted from the most revered crime story writer in the history? To top of it off, this screenplay is adopted and enacted by a bunch of accomplished people? Then, you would say it has to come out splendidly superb, right? Well, not so much if you are watching […]
Fans of romantic drama and stories intercepted across timelines will surely like this movie. Based on the novel of the same name by Jojo Moyes, this film essentially focuses on taking chances in love and this theme is presented across two time periods till the end. The film begins in a fictional British newspaper as […]
There is a dessert, in the middle of it is a refugee camp and next to it is a hanger. Then there is Momo, Mutt and Ellie. Three persons meeting or rather discovering themselves in three different places. How that came to be? what happened? And most importantly, why it has happened? This book tries […]
This is the second book I came across narrating the stories that make the cherished epic called Ramayan which is authored by Anand Neelakantan. Like the earlier book, depicting the details of Ravana’s life, this too successfully manages to capture readers’ attention from the word go. Here the author is specifically talking about the five […]
This compact but complex book of essays by Zadie Smith is your quintessential reading for these unusual, unpredictable times. Coming out in the middle of this once-a-century pandemic, these six concise essays manage to capture the mood of this muddled hour so perfectly. These six essays have nothing in common in them per se but […]
A girl can dream- she can dream of visiting different places, meeting new set of people and having a better life. But what if while chasing these dreams, she has to make a deal and then keep that bargain going on for more than 300 years. Curios enough? Then read on. The story of Adeline […]
This book adaptation was the one that I have been looking forward to watch for a while. Although premiered and streamed in UK few years back, it took a while to reach this to my part of the world. But was this prolonged waiting worth it? Read more to find out. Adapted from the Cormoran […]
The best way to describe this story can be- when a languid summer turns into a love story or how a friendship leads to the bittersweet heartaches. Based on the book of the same name by André Aciman, the simple romance with complicated details makes it one of the compelling feature film of our times. […]
Men explain things to me begins with the author narrating an everyday, mundane experience. This anecdote might feel like shocking from a man’s perspective but yeah as women, we are very much used to such “mansplaining”. Although, the author categorically mentions that her brilliantly written essay has given birth to this term, but she would […]
