Food is one of the greatest reflection of cultures and legacy the world over and nowhere does this saying stand as true as you see in India. The School of Flavours, Canada strives to highlight exactly this unique amalgam of culinary cultures across India in its event, Taste Of India. The School Of Flavours is one of those institutions across Canada that is working tirelessly to connect cultures through food. […]
NASA has already gained immense amount of insight into important aspects of Mars, thanks to its reliable Martian rovers, which have been scaling the rocky terrain for years. One such rover is Curiosity, which has shown its efficiency time and again by beaming back spectacular images of the Red Planet, which will assist the space agency in its future mission to Mars. The 4D droid is also responsible for one […]
The trailer for Angelina Jolie’s upcoming Netflix original film, First They Killed My Father was released on 2 August. Based on the 2000 memoir by Loung Ung, it chronicles the Khmer Rouge genocide that rocked Cambodia under the dictatorial regime of Pol Pot during the 1970s. Ung lost her parents and two of her siblings in the mayhem. The trailer of the film is intense and nerve-wracking. To imagine what […]
Following reports that Hafiz Saeed is looking to launch his own political party in Pakistan, India on Friday said that Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief and the mastermind of Mumbai terrorist attack is trying to hide his blood stained hands behind ballot ink. Speaking about reports of Saeed deciding to launch his own political party in Pakistan by renaming his terror outfit JuD as Milli Muslim League Pakistan, Indian External Affairs Ministry […]
Shanker Raman’s first film as director – after stacking up several acclaimed credits as a cinematographer – is a visual treat. That is, if a relentlessly grim King Lear-esque account of an imploding family can be described as such. Vivek Shah’s outstanding cinematography in Gurgaon conjures up a sepulchral world in blacks, browns and greys. Like Raman’s script, which has been written by the director and three collaborators, Shah’s camera […]
Seventy years ago, in August 1947, British colonial rule in India came to an end. The country was divided into two independent states – Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. Using letters and diaries sourced from the world’s first Partition Museum which opens in Amritsar on 17 August, Soutik Biswas pieces together the extraordinary story of four friends who were separated by the traumatic event and reunited 30 years later. “Our […]
It is a widely accepted notion that the brain controls all aspects of sleep, but a new research revealed that a muscle protien may hold key to certain sleep disorder. The study shows that the protein in the muscle can lessen the effects of sleep loss in mice. The finding gives scientists a new target besides the brain to develop therapies for people with excessive sleepiness. Joseph Takahashi, Chairman of […]
If the flop-ridden Hindi film industry had its hopes pinned on the new Shah Rukh Khan starrer for salvation, then it’s time to unpin those hopes. Imtiaz Ali’s eagerly awaited “Jab Harry Met Sejal” is a lengthy, lumbering, baggy and pointless love story. As lengthy and lumbering as his earlier “Tamasha” where two grown-up individuals behaved like a bratty unpleasant couple on a reality show pretending to be people they […]
There’s a vacancy at NASA, and it may have one of the greatest job titles ever conceived: planetary protection officer. It pays well, between $124,000 and $187,000 annually. You get to work with really smart people as part of the three- to five-year appointment but don’t have to manage anyone. And your work could stave off an alien invasion of Earth or, more important, protect other planets from us. President […]
The trailer of Luca Guadagnino’s coming-of-age film Call Me By Your Name is out and it literally screams perfection. The trailer is crowded by reviews from international publications and adjectives are peppered all over the trailer, which takes away from the logical flow of the narrative. The story, as much as this writer could deduce from the trailer, revolves around the relationship shared by a boy Elio Perlman (played by Timothee Chalamet) and […]
