The film adaptation of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas is itself an achievement. Here are some other films, based on books, which were perceived to be too difficult to adapt.
On September 2, 1973, the world lost one of its finest storytellers. But years on, JRR Tolkien’s novels continue to inspire writers, artists, film-makers and lovers of fantasy. Without him, literature would not have been the same. We bring his world to life once again.
Every year, thousands of couples and audience members from all over the world reach the city of Buenos Aires in Argentina to experience the Tango Buenos Aires Festival and Dance World Cup 2012. Argentine couples recovered their dominance of the world’s top tango dancing competition, sweeping both the Salon Tango and Stage Tango categories as the [...]
Fistful of Dreams is my ongoing project to foreground the issues of gender and racial discrimination in India. In the first year of project, I embedded myself into the lives of six-year-old Palguni and her family, with the hope that their story will contribute in building awareness and creating a strong wave of public opinion to safeguard the rights of girls in India.
With Simon West’s ensemble action film Expendables 2 set to release later this week, we take a look at some of the films that featured some of the finest actors of that era. More than the tag of being multi-starrers, it’s the thrill of watching all your favourite stars in one frame that made them [...]
When we see what they see through the lens, even the most ordinary sights become extraordinary. That’s photography for you. We list here some of the pioneers and exponents of this art. Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson is considered the father of modern photojournalism. He helped develop “street photography” or “life reportage” style that has [...]
In the current peak-oil situation, building sustainable cities has become a necessity. While the world wakes up to this fact, Hyderabad’s cyber city area continues to grow in an unplanned manner. Cities bring to mind squalor, crowds and congestion. Existing urban spaces may have started out as planned areas, but rapid population growth and migration [...]
On this day Bill Clinton admitted to having an affair with the White House intern Monica Lewinsky, joining the ranks of celebrities whose straying habits ended up putting them in the limelight. We look at some of these wayward Jacks and Janes.
Very few filmmakers in cinema history have reached the pinnacle of fame which Alfred Hitchcock has managed to during his illustrious career.
Here is a heartwarming story of street dog Baby and her current owner Mary Blackburn Ibach. It chronicles Baby’s journey from a dirt hole in Hyderabad to a home in Seattle Mary Blackburn Ibach I journeyed to India alone in search for a cure for the stage four cancer I have. My search landed me in [...]
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Andhra Pradesh tops in revenge murders over illicit affairs according to the National Crime Records Bureau statistics. The motive for 445 murders, reported in the State last year, was revenge on cheating partners or their paramours. This amounts to 16 per cent of the murder cases registered here. While the motive for 317 murder cases [...]
Don’t blame the weather for your gloominess. Good rainfall last week and the forecast of further rains due to an active South-West monsoon prompts farmers to sow crops in 50,000 hectares more than last year in Andhra Pradesh. The acreage is expected to increase 25-30 per cent over the normal area of 81.12 lakh hectares, [...]
The man who took a ‘stand’ at Taksim Square
A man stood still in Istanbul’s Taksim Square: silent, staring straight ahead, he had not moved for hours. His peaceful action, on the square that police cleared of protesters on Saturday and where the Turkish authorities have banned gatherings, was a new form of protest. He arrived Monday evening as night was falling and took [...]
As a conscious citizen watching the unfolding of the soap from Bihar, I am constrained to do some hard talk because all these worthies are playing with my life and my children’s. You may well ask how. Because what is happening is not an internal matter of a party or a Front but dividing the nation on communal lines more acutely than they did in the past. And communal venom has no anti-venom. It is deadly.
Corporal punishment in AP schools
The Public Interest Litigation filed in the Andhra Pradesh (AP) High Court on Saturday challenging the inaction of the State government in preventing ‘corporal punishment’ to children in schools calls for attention. Mohammed Shahbaz Ahmed Khan, a City resident, moved the PIL contending that as per the United Nations’ convention, the State was required to [...]
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