Monday, February 23, 2026

GoT Season 5 Episode 1 leaked !

It’s the episode we’d all been waiting for over a year now. The fourth season had left us all hanging with those twists. Season...

A Spoiler-Full of Entertainment

Fans and fanatics sit with bated breaths as the fifth-season premiere of HBO’s epic fantasy series ‘Game of Thrones’ comes closer (Fourteen days to...

Tales of the Lonesome Big City: Hand. Cannot. Erase. Review

I stumbled into Porcupine Tree quite late in my search for awesome artists. Call it a noob’s myopia (blindness, rather) that the fact that...

Daastan-e-Gulzar: Ek akela is shahar mein

Five months after a successful Annual Penguin Lecture, Penguin was back with Annual Spring Fever at India Habitat Centre, Delhi.  Penguin is raising the...

Whims of a Surrealist: Startling Juxtapositions

All of the rationalists amongst us believe in Dream and Reality as two different realms of existence. Then there are the ones who believe...

Friendly Fridays Chapter 19: Sushant Divgikar

On the 19th issue of Friendly Fridays we continue with our mission to build a talent map, with that in mind we have here...

Indian Summers – The Raj’s Last Glory

It’s been 68 years that we’ve been a free nation, and just as the colonial aftertaste had faded off, Channel 4, a prominent British...

Kangana Ranaut : Transition from Gangster to Queen

As Bollywood’s doe eyed beauty, Kangana Ranaut rings in her 28th birthday today, we decided to take a quick peek into her innings so...

J. Archer’s Mightier than the Sword- Review

The Clifton Chronicles, Volume Five: Mightier than the Sword is the latest release by Jeffrey Archer. The series was originally planned to have five...

Friendly Fridays Chapter 18: Abhay Sharma

So here we are, back with our 18th edition of Friendly Fridays, our little big attempt to create a talent map of the world....

Rediscovering Story-telling: An Art and its Science

Story-telling is probably the single-most popular recreational activity after sex and shopping. Story telling has now changed the way it usually worked with people...

A Traveller’s Diary To The Far East- Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Macau

There are few sights as gorgeous as the approach to Hong Kong International Airport against the morning sunrise. Nestled among the several islands that...

Haruki Murakami: Tales of Desires and Demons beyond Dimensions

Haruki Murakami is a contemporary Japanese novelist arguably one of the most popular in the world. Apart from that, it is incredibly hard to describe...

Friendly Fridays Chapter 17: Uplaksh Kochhar

As you all know, we are on a mission to build the talent map of the world. So, steering on in our noble effort...

How to Get Away with Murder: Fall TV’s Finest Debut

How to Get Away with Murder is one of the most talked about debuts of last year’s fall TV which had viewers not only...

How is Hindustani Music different from Carnatic Music

Differences between Hindustani and Carnatic Music Indian Music has many genres like folk, bollywood, Rabindra Music, pop, indi-pop, Indian rock, etc. Similarly, the two most...

WHEN WILL WE HAVE OUR OSCARS?

With the 87th Academy Awards, thousands in India were again left to wake up groggy-eyed in the dark of the dawn as the famed...

True Detective Season 2: Reinventing the Psychosphere

Hailed by critics and worshipped by TV fanatics, the 2014 American crime drama television series, True Detective, written and created by Nic Pizzolatto, is...

The Rani Of ‘Queen’

Though it seems innocuous that the title of the film is ‘Queen’, it has a deeper significance and is part of an ideology that...

Banned Films: Who Are They Censoring For?

Steven Spielberg once said that "there is a fine line between censorship and good taste, and moral responsibility". The ban of the documentary India’s Daughter (2015)...

Dum Laga Ke Haisha: Love Comes in All Sizes

At first thought, it seemed plausible that Dum Laga Ke Haisha’s tone would be primarily defensive. Thankfully, it isn’t. Dum Laga Ke Haisha hits...

Four Horror Flicks to Rob You of Sleep

Horror cinema has come a long way since The Exorcist with some pretty big tumbles and pitfalls along the way. While we have had...

Irshad Kamil: The Return of Lyrics to Bollywood Music

One of the main reasons the songs of Rockstar (2011) were more successful than the movie is because of its songs’ lyrics. In the...

Friendy Fridays Chapter 16: Kunal Bhatia

In this Holi special installment of Friendly Fridays, we have a rather gregarious guest, Kunal Bhatia. An IIT’ian as well as a very talented...

5 Revolutionary Writers Who Changed the World

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” ― Toni Morrison (Winner, Nobel...