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Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner crash kills 242

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London-bound Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner AI171 travelling from Ahmedabad, western India, to London Gatwick crashed shortly after take-off from runway 23 of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport, killing 242 people. The CCTV footage showed the aircraft lifting off smoothly, and seconds after take-off the airline failed to climb as expected and skimmed forward too low, too slow  and crashed into a doctor’s hostel of a medical college in Meghaninagar locality, erupting into flames emitting thick black smoke.  Dreamliner gave a mayday call to air traffic control 30 seconds after taking off and then the signal was lost. There were 169 Indian, … Continue reading Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner crash kills 242

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England’s record 3-0 series win over West Indies

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Third T20, Utilita Bowl, Southampton England 248-3 (20 overs) Duckett 84 off 46, 10 fours, 2 sixes, Smith 60 off 26,  4 fours, five sixes, Rutherford 1-20, Hosein 1-42, Motie 1-44. West Indies 211-8 (20 overs) Powell 79 off 45, 9 fours, 4 sixes, Hope 45 off 27, 3 forus, 23 sixes, Wood 3-31, Rashid 2-30 England won by 37 runs, win series 3-0 Ben Dukett’s smashing 84 in 46 balls , helped England to 248-3, a record score on home soil as they completed a 3-0 series win with a 37-run victory over West Indies in the third T20. Duckett … Continue reading England’s record 3-0 series win over West Indies

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Transformation of the World’s largest democracy

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Indira Gandhi’s ascent as prime minister in 1966, and ruled for fifteen years, which was unforeseen and soon emerged as one of the most powerful political leaders of her times, who transformed the world’s largest democracy.  Historian Srinath Raghavan, tells the story of Indira Gandhi’s political career and the momentous changes that India experienced under her leadership. From her tentative start in high office to her remarkable electoral victories, the dark days of the Emergency of 1975-1977, and her assassination at the hands of her Sikh bodyguards in 1984. Raghavan sheds new light one her politics and government, as well … Continue reading Transformation of the World’s largest democracy

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Dreaming of a fragile future and misfortunes of a teen Naples bandit

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So People Know It’s Me, set in the winter of 1991, is a unforgettable novel which unleashes Zeno’s luminous, unguarded and defiant voice- dreaming of a fragile future, set in the juvenile prison island of Nisida. Zeno is fifteen years old, a minor by law, but he grew up long ago in the dusty heat of Naples.  The novel follows one man’s self-realisation in a foreboding juvenile prison. Winding down cobbled streets on his motorbike, he delivers baggies and picks pockets, doing whatever it takes to put food on the table and steal a few precious moments of freedom with his … Continue reading Dreaming of a fragile future and misfortunes of a teen Naples bandit

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Dark Desires, a smell of leather, the flash of harness, the snap of a latex gloves

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Welcome to the radical, vibrant world of sexual fetishists. In 21st century commodity culture, we are all intimately involved with objects we covet a Birkin bag; we keep trainers box-fresh. We are, in a sense, all fetishists. Occasionally this desire spills into something more subversive. Second Skin offers a tour through the materials, objects and power dynamics commonly fetishized, unpacking their histories, their expressive potential, and the communities they give rise to. Drawing from her encounters with fellow fetishists and kinksters, it is alos the story of ex-fashion critic, Anastasiia Fedorova’s own journey of what it means to come to terms … Continue reading Dark Desires, a smell of leather, the flash of harness, the snap of a latex gloves

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What it means to be a dad today?

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In the midst of the “masculinity crisis”, award-winning historian, Augustine Sedgewick, author of Coffee-land  reveals an ambitious history of masculinity and family, from the Bronze Age to the modern day, in Fatherhood and dares to offer a more caring and affirmative vision of the roles men currently play in society. How successive generations of men have shaped our understanding of what it means to be and have a father, and in turn our ideas of who we are, where we come from and what we are capable of. What is fatherhood, and where did it come from? How has the role … Continue reading What it means to be a dad today?

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Wolf in Sheep’s clothing

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Historian Dalrymple whose visceral understanding of India, in Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company, based thousands of miles overseas in one small office, five windows wide, and answerable only to its distant shareholders. This relentless rise of in August 1765, the East India Company, who defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army- what we would now … Continue reading Wolf in Sheep’s clothing

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Camilla Hanney

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The idealisations of constructed femininity and its associated challenging issues, 33-year-old Camilla Hanney, an Irish artist based in London, holding a MFA from Goldsmiths University, borrowed 1992 Hollywood dark comedy, Death Becomes her to illustrate the perils of beauty, morality and mortality when demanded of the female form, in porcelain.  Humor and horror doing a Tango intertwining in pursuit of perfection. Camilla was recently shortlisted for the Ingram Prize and was one of the ten laureates exhibiting at Ceramic Brussels 2025. She also featured in both solo and group exhibitions across Ireland and the UK, showcasing her practice at the South … Continue reading Camilla Hanney

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Saudi: A country that is all too easily misunderstood

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A new history of Saudi Arabia spanning its eighteenth-century origins to the present day. Saudi Arabia on the wealthiest countries in the world, a major player on the international stage and the site of Islam’s two holiest cities and also one of the world’s only absolute monarchies. David Commins narrates the full history of Saudi Arabia from oasis emirate to present-day attempts to leap to a past-petroleum economy. Moving through the ages, Commins traces how the Saud dynasty’s reliance on sectarianism, foreign expertise, and petroleum to stabilize power has unintentionally spawned secular and religious movements seeking accountability and justice. He … Continue reading Saudi: A country that is all too easily misunderstood

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Weird accidents, strange coincidences, and spooky events

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Muriel Spark, a Scottish-born genius writer of funny novels, experienced time in two ways, “clock time” or chronological events. She wrote of Proust, the he “regarded Time subjectively, and realised that the whole of eternity is a present now”. Frances Wilson’s biography reflects Spark a puzzle, and so tto are her books. She dealt in word games, tricks, and ciphers; her life was composed of weird accidents, strange coincidences and spooky events. Evelyn Waugh thought she was a saint, Bernard Levin said she was a witch, and she described herself as “Muriel the Marvel with her X-ray eyes”. Following the … Continue reading Weird accidents, strange coincidences, and spooky events