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A new book looks at Michael Douglas and the confused American man

New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- Director Oliver Stone's 2010 film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps saw him return to one of the most memorable characters he'd created: the ruthless, glib corporate raider Gordon G... Read More


Writer Gideon Haigh on the foremost rivalry in cricket today

New Delhi, July 17 -- A line cricket fans and writers love to quote is Trinidadian historian and Marxist scholar C.L.R. James' "What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?" James meant that ... Read More


Gurnaik Johal's 'Saraswati': A complex debut that misses the mark on majoritarian politics

New Delhi, July 11 -- British-Asian writer Gurnaik Johal's ambitious debut novel Saraswati begins with Satnam (a Punjabi Londoner), one of the novel's main characters, staring at a well he has just in... Read More


Why writer Yashpal's feminism provokes thought 50 years on

New Delhi, July 6 -- The plot of Dada Comrade, the Hindi communist writer Yashpal's (1903-76) debut novel (originally published in 1941), was informed by the events of his own tumultuous youth. As an ... Read More


How Suniti Namjoshi wields the spear and the shield of satire and fables

New Delhi, June 1 -- One of the more enjoyable oddities of postmodern literature is the breathless, single-sentence composition. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short story, The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship... Read More


Big data has changed cricket

New Delhi, May 30 -- The 2025 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) has been anything but typical-how could it be, with the armed conflict between India and Pakistan forcing a week-long hiatus in... Read More