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Talk of Dharamdev Pishiorimal Anand and one will be greeted by an yawn. But the audience is all ears even at the passing mention of Dev Anand. The evergreen star will turn 100 on September 26. The month long celebrations are already on for remembering the perennial young lover of the Hindi cinema who, in his own words romanced with his life.

Renowned Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri's new collection of short stories – Roman Stories — is set to be released next month. Her fans are excited and expressing their feelings on X, formerly Twitter. This would be her third collection of short stories after Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and Unaccustomed Earth (2008). She has also written six books, including two novels: The Namesake (2003), The Lowland (2013), In Other Words (2015), The Clothing of Books (2016), Whereabouts (2021), and Translating Myself and Others (2022).

Recently, Anoushka Shankar took to social media to share her personal struggles – her moments of vulnerability during her music performances and emphasized the necessity to persevere. She began by recounting her recent performance at the Edinburgh International Festival.

Biographies make fascinating reading. Not only because one gets involved in the life of the central character, but they’re also full of anecdotes that are fun to read. This is where serious books of history differ. They’re more analytical and, therefore, more demanding. Often, when they re-valuate something, they can be formidable.

Near the start of Netflix’s now-long-running reality show Selling Sunset, real estate agent Heather Rae El Moussa (née Young) pans to the camera and makes a rather Marxian observation about labour in a wage-based economy. The impeccably made-up agent (it has been reported that she and her coworkers, not Netflix, pay for their own makeup artists) says, “It’s hard because if you don’t work and hustle . . . you don’t get paid.” A few scenes later, she is ostensibly “at work” at the office of her employer, the Oppenheim Group, but is chided by another agent for excessively gossiping: “Heather, shut up and do some work!” “I told you, I don’t have a computer!” she cries back.

Otto Von Bismarck had to trigger three wars to forge peace across Germany. A Prussian master of strategy, Bismarck manoeuvred Denmark, Austria and France into fighting a loose alliance of 39 quarelling German states. In the end, he got what he wanted: three war victories that fused the states into unified Germany, making it a major European power.

It’s tempting to view the strike underway by Hollywood writers and TV and film actors against the studios as a war between wealthy Hollywood elites.

The existence of a film like Oppenheimer shows just how necessary it is to teach history in all of its complexities and nuance. When tackled in a way that is not sanitized, it can open up a true exploration of our past and its influence on our present and future. This biopic explores the life of the “father of the atomic bomb,” Julius Robert Oppenheimer, portrayed on screen by Cillian Murphy. The film masterfully creates an engrossing and dramatic thriller that intertwines history and questions of morality. It takes a deep dive into the Atomic Age of the 1940s and forces viewers to grapple with questions of how the period forever changed the course of human history. It is a heavy three hours to sit through, but well worth the viewing.

Amitav Ghosh became the first writer in English to win Jnanpith IS A CRUSADER Award, one of India’s most prestigious literary prizes. It’s a sign of just how effectively he has decolonized the language.

Bengaluru: Seher Atwal, carded two birdies in the last four holes for 2-over 69 at the Par-67 Bangalore Golf Club to share the lead after the first round alongside Sneha Singh and amateur Mannat Brar, who birdied the 18th in the 11th leg of the Hero WPGT here on Wednesday.