News and Views

Let's first address the elephant in the room: the Mad Queen plot-line, which many fans hoped would turn out to be a red-herring after the last episode, turned out to be true, and it played out like a nightmare in the penultimate episode (episode 5), titled The Bells, of the Game of Thrones season 8. 

To see the biggest fall from grace of one of the most powerful characters you rooted for through 7 seasons, can be a very hard thing. But definitely a raging madness cannot be put past Daenerys Targaryen's character, and very few would deny that. How the creators got to this point is surely worth debating.

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When will Tiger Shroff stop getting “launched” ? His first film came out in 2014. 5 years on he remains the favourite star kid still being featured in show reels! Don’t get me wrong. Few can fight as convincingly as Shroff Jr does and he has a likeable presence but his treatment in every movie has been of a “product” being “launched” and now it’s getting a bit much!

The only way to describe Student Of The Year 2 is that it is Karan Johar’s right and “dharma” to campaign for star kids and display to the world what these lovelies are capable of. Tune in to the podcast for the full review!

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Fandom is almost like being part of a cult, a commune of acolytes. Certain writers have said that it is like fanaticism, but to a cultural ideology – your commitment is as intense and involved as a right-winger or a left-winger, but because it is to pop culture, it seems trivial. In other words, fandom is about being a pop culture bhakt!

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Pakistan cannot hope for peace in Balochistan unless it realises that the solution is to address domestic problems. The country should take responsibility for making Balochistan a hotbed for terror groups.

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Kerala, often lauded by others – and Malayalis themselves – for its highly-educated population, has gotten entangled in two public debates which have shaken the foundation of this status of the community.

The first one was in the form of the huge protests taken out by a section of the community against the Supreme Court verdict allowing women to enter the Sabarimala shrine. The second one is the more recent debate against the forest officials‘ refusal to allow one ageing elephant with low eye-sight from participating in Thrissur Pooram, one of the biggest temple festivals in Kerala.

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