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The gospel of Goscinny: How I fell in love with Asterix

India, Aug. 23 -- I read my first Asterix when I was in Class 3. On a visit to an aunt's house, I grew tired of fidgeting as the adults discussed the ailments and scandals of the extended family, and ... Read More


The Gospel of Goscinny: K Narayanan on why he keeps returning to the world of the Asterix comics

India, Aug. 21 -- I read my first Asterix when I was in Class 3. I had been taken to visit an aunt. I dreaded these visits, because most of the relatives we went visiting were much older. (Almost eve... Read More


Scream therapy: A top 10 of rare King adaptations

India, Aug. 9 -- The 10 lesser-known Stephen King adaptations here are films that rarely make the "best-of" lists, but circle the same wounds from different angles. These are tales of loss, guilt, the... Read More


Shots heardaround the world

India, July 26 -- "Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs," the American essayist Susan Sontag wrote, in 1977. "A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refu... Read More


Shots heard around the world : 200 years since the first-ever photograph

India, July 24 -- "Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs," the American essayist Susan Sontag wrote, in 1977. "A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refu... Read More


This Wiki, that year

India, June 28 -- In 2001, The New York Times published a story about a new website that was "looking for ways to enable visitors. to collaborate to change the site themselves". The journalist Peter M... Read More


Bombshell and beyond: The Marilyn we never knew

India, June 14 -- In 1944, Norma Jeane Dougherty's husband James was shipped out to World War II's Pacific theatre. Norma Jeane, like so many soldier wives, moved in with her in-laws and went to work ... Read More