‘But has the potential to be revived, Jon Snow-like, later’ Chennai, June 29: Confirming that the long-running character Ravi Shastri was being slowly killed and by this season finale ‘could be totally removed from the storyline’, the scriptwriters of the entertainment series BCCI have said that ‘as of now the character seems bereft of any potential for fresh drama’. However,… Read more →
Back from a long vacation last week, I naturally had a lot of official work to attend, and the most urgent one turned out to be watching Udta Punjab, the controversial movie that has bravely thrown light on the stuff that a major cross section of Punjabi populace seems to be tragically addicted to: Swear words. Almost every third sentence… Read more →
London: The entire world is talking about Brexit except perhaps you, and that is because you have no earthly clue what it is (‘sounds like the name of a new brand of biscuit,’ was your first thought). But luckily for you, here is a quick and crisp low down on the entire matter in a handy ‘Q and A’ format… Read more →
(As promised last week, I pick up from where I left — on the hilly highway between Munnar and Thekkady). The drive from Munnar to Thekkady defies description, mostly because you can hardly see anything even 10 feet away what with it being mostly misty. But, in between, when the weather clears, as if some invisible magic hand has moved… Read more →
Newspaper industry hit by rising circulation numbers Chennai, June 15: The Indian newspaper industry, already buffeted by several detrimental developments including the phenomenal rise of internet media, seems to be in the throes of another crisis, one that is being described as the ‘biggest’ faced by it ever: the increase in the circulation figures of many newspapers. ‘It has come… Read more →
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