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Sholay fifty years on under starlight: comedy to heartbreak, action to tragedy

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“Sholay” the Indian blockbuster celebrates its 50 years, whose journey began from an uncertain beginning to a monumental success, is a powerful reminder that once a spark ignites they can turn into an inferno that can’t be doused. This is the story of the team who smelled failure in the first week of releasing the film turned around by marketing in to the evergreen blockbuster. Sholay with stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Sanjeev Kumar, Jaya Baduri and Amjad Khan. Sholay inspired by Spaghetti Westerns and Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, the film had a flavour of its own, with … Continue reading Sholay fifty years on under starlight: comedy to heartbreak, action to tragedy

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World of Organised Crime

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A bandit becomes a monarch, a gang becomes a government and organised crime at the heart of every modern state. Homo Criminalis shows the emergence of modern society through the evolution of the underworld and its crimes. From Chinese banditry and eighteenth-century English tea smuggling to today’s cocaine submarines and the high-tech crimes of tomorrow, showing how the world’s dark underbelly shapes us, no matter how we try to outpace it. Mark Galeotti, a prolific author specialising in Russia and organised crime, shows “our dynamic interconnected globalised networked cross-cultural world is so permeated by organised crime. It is very hard … Continue reading World of Organised Crime

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World of Organised Crime

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A bandit becomes a monarch, a gang becomes a government and organised crime at the heart of every modern state. Homo Criminalis shows the emergence of modern society through the evolution of the underworld and its crimes. From Chinese banditry and eighteenth-century English tea smuggling to today’s cocaine submarines and the high-tech crimes of tomorrow, showing how the world’s dark underbelly shapes us, no matter how we try to outpace it. Mark Galeotti, a prolific author specialising in Russia and organised crime, shows “our dynamic interconnected globalised networked cross-cultural world is so permeated by organised crime. It is very hard … Continue reading World of Organised Crime

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Marriage, love, betrayal, infidelity

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Roberta Green, a graduate student on the master of fine arts programme at the fictitious Edward University in upstate New York is presenting a searing thesis project about two married professors tiptoeing towards infidelity, as their transgressions are brought to light in Seduction Theory by Emily Adrian. The facts she is presenting pertain to the romantic lives of two of her tutors: a married couple named Simone and Ethan both in their early forties. Simone is the star of Edwards University’s creative writing department renowned Woolf scholar, grief memoirist, and campus sex icon. Her less glamorous and ostensibly devoted husband, … Continue reading Marriage, love, betrayal, infidelity

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Engineering towards mega projects

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Chinese-Canadian, Technology analyst, Dan Wang, from Stanford University, has been living through China’s astonishing messy progress. China’s towering bridges, gleaming railways, and sprawling factories have improved economic outcomes in record time. Rapid changes also meant pain throughout the Chinese society, controlled by political repression ending in astonishing growth, a feature of China’s engineering mindset. In Breakneck, Wang, reveals a provocative new framework for understanding China – one that helps us see America more clearly. While China is an engineering state, relentlessly pursuing megaprojects, the United States has stalled. America has transformed into a lawyerly society, reflexively blocking everything good and … Continue reading Engineering towards mega projects

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Capitalism’s permanent revolution

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We are faced with fundamental questions about the sustainability and morality of the economic system, Capitalism and its Critics provides a kaleidoscopic history of global capitalism, from colonialism and the Industrial Revolution to the ecological and artificial intelligence. British-American staff writer and economic journalist at the New Yorker, John Cassidy author of Dot.con, which examined the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s, and How Markets Fail, which illuminates the origins of the great financial crisis of 2007-08. Cassidy starts with the colonial monopoly capitalism of the East India Company, as seen through the critical eyes of William Bolts, a disgruntled … Continue reading Capitalism’s permanent revolution

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Solo Art Show

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Mali’s 33 rd Solo Art Show – Chalk Farm.Painting, photography and conceptual work.At Koppel Gallery, 157 Regents Park Road, London NW1 8BB.From 12 – 17 August 2025 2 – 6 pm.Nearest underground – Chalk Farm, Northern Line. Gallery is very near thestation. Good network of buses.Saturday 16 August 4 – 6 pm – Poetry and Live Music with refreshmentsconducted by Penny Nair Price. Admission Free. Everyone is welcome.Mali is very much an impressionist school artist but today he doesconceptualist work. For more than the last two decades he has been workingon the book subject. He does a lot of networking … Continue reading Solo Art Show

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Antics of Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie

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In Men in Love, action takes place over roughly, three years upto 1990, Welsh has to think himself into an era before smartphones and the internet. Late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin- a time for hope, for love, for raving. Leaving heroin behind and separated after a drug deal gone wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie each want feel alive. They fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead; they follow the call of the dance floor, with its promise of joy … Continue reading Antics of Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie

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Workplace romance virtually

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Moderation by Elaine Castillo is the real romance in the virtual workplace, a story about the possible future of live. Girlie Delmundo is the greatest content moderator in the world, and despite the setbacks of financial crises, climate catastrophe, and a global pandemic, she’s going places after getting a promotion. Now thanks to the parent company Paragon’s purchase of Fairground- the world’s preeminent virtual reality content provider- she’s on the way to becoming an elite VR moderator, playing in the big leagues and, if her enthusiastic bosses are to be believed moderating the next stage of human interaction. In another … Continue reading Workplace romance virtually

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Love is scorned as illusion

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Arthur Golden in Memoirs of a Geisha, presents exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan’s most celebrated geisha. We enter a world where appearances are paramount where a girl’s virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a triumphant work of fiction-at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful, and completely unforgettable. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, Mass Market Paperback 503 pages £11.99. Continue reading Love is scorned as illusion