Come Back Mister Rogers: Rating: Three and a half stars: Fred Rogers, host of the beloved, long-running children’s TV show, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, is an American phenomenon, but as a man representing…
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The Sisterhood Way: The completion of 300 shows of Sangeet Devbabhali is a good time to revisit a review written in 2018. A man ignores his wife and home because…
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Saffron Trending: Rating: Three stars: It is time for producers with deep pockets to bring out unsung heroes from Indian history. It is also obvious that these characters and events…
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Splash Of Courage: Rating: Three stars There have been films made before Meghna Gulzar’s Chhapaak, on the unimaginably horrific crime of acid attacks on women, notably the Oscar-winning documentary, Saving Face (2012) by Sharmeen…
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Two recent novels, led to the discovery of a remarkable initiative in the early twentieth century, in Roosevelt-era America–the Works Progress Administration’s Pack Horse Library Project. Best-selling author Jojo Moyes’s…
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Life Goes On: Mary Beth Keane’s third novel Ask Again, Yes has been voted by several sites as one of the best books of 2019. A sprawling yet intimate epic…
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No Spice, No Sizzle: Rating: 1-1/2 stars: A Ramesh Sippy film coming out after 25 years—his last film Zamana Deewana released in 1995—and turning out to be such a dud,…
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It was in January 1979, a couple of months after the inauguration of Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai, that Katare formed his group, Yatri, and staged the satirical play Ek Tha…
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Love & Loss: This book finds itself on every list of Best of 2019, capturing with compassion the upheavals in the lives of the Conroy siblings over five decades. At…
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Baby Blues: Rating: Three stars In Raj Mehta’s dramedy, Good Newwz, the why not adopt question is met with the conservative “apna khoon” answer. So two women desperate to have children,…