![]() “I got lucky because we found this really incredible actor, Adarsh. ![]() ![]() The director credits much of the film’s energy to leading man Gourav, in his first feature leading role. It tells this story through Balram’s unique point of view, flashing back to moments in his journey from servitude. Much like the original source material, Bahrani’s Indian odyssey is captivating and propulsive. ![]() SEE Exclusive Video Interview: Priyanka Chopra Jonas (‘The White Tiger’) It’s an unflinching portrait of the poverty, corruption and inequality that are entrenched within Indian society, as Balram has to overcome his lot in life to realize his potential. “The White Tiger,” which Bahrani adapted from Aravind Adiga‘s acclaimed novel of the same name, follows Balram, a poor Indian driver ( Adarsh Gourav), who embarks on an epic journey to break free from the shackles of servitude to his rich masters to forge hi sown destiny and rise to the top of the heap as an entrepreneur. It’s been rigged against him because of where he was born and what lot in life he was born into.” We talked with Bahrani as part of Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&A event with key 2021 guild and Oscar contenders. “He wants to be free to reach his full potential as a human being and society is not giving him that chance. ![]() “It’s a story about a man who wants to be free,” declares “ The White Tiger” writer/director Ramin Bahrani about what ultimately underpins the narrative of his sprawling epic. ![]()
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![]() About to reveal the identity of the murderer, Poirot credits the experience recounted in Murder in Mesopotamia with developing his methods in detection.They had been fellow-guests at a very strange dinner party-a dinner party that had ended in death for that strange man, their host.” It refers to the novel Cards on the Table. When Poirot meets Race, Christie writes: “Hercule Poirot had come across Colonel Race a year previously in London.This refers to the plot in Murder on the Orient Express. In Part II, Chapter 21 of the novel, Poirot mentions having found a scarlet kimono in his luggage. ![]() Rufus Van Aldin, known from The Mystery of the Blue Train.
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They've killed the only other person she trusted, but something she knows still poses a threat. Now she rarely stays in the same place or uses the same name for long. And when they decided she was a liability, they came for her without warning. An expert in her field, she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn't even have a name. ![]() government, but very few people ever knew that. In this gripping page-turner, an ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through the lens of their imperfections, we can see how God used their stories to bring about His divine plans. While some heard God’s voice, others chose their own paths. Like us, they were human beings who faltered and struggled to do their best. Not all of these mothers and daughters in the Bible were paragons of virtue. ![]() Through these stories, Shannon explains the intimate connection between faith and family–and how God’s unexpected agenda can redefine the way we think about family. ![]() And a daughter, Michal, struggled to keep her faithless father, Saul, from sin, while battling pride in herself. Another biblical mother, Rebekah, made terrible choices in an attempt to ensure her son’s place in history. Could Jochebed have imagined that God’s actual design for her son involved flight into exile and danger? And yet this was all part of the master plan to deliver Israel from slavery. She tells the story of Jochebed, a mother who took enormous risks to protect her son, Moses, from Pharaoh. But what does it actually look like to live it out? In The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak, Shannon Bream examines the lives of biblical women to see how God’s plans can turn our worlds upside down. “Have faith” is a phrase we hear all the time. ![]() God always keeps His promises, but not always in the way we expect…. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though the author leans a bit much on shock value, she adds depth to the strange and eerie atmosphere with recurring themes of religion and death (“She wants to be the divine abode in which the sacred is housed,” Bazterrica writes of the self-sacrificing Ada). Here, Bazterrica writes mordantly of the strange compulsion to visit decrepit cemeteries such as the one where Sandoz is buried: “People are capable of anything to dissipate the monotony of their lives.” Even the lighter entries are strangely unsettling, such as “No Tears,” about a family renowned for never crying who attend funerals to make the bereaved laugh. In “Elena-Marie Sandoz,” a B-movie actor dies by suicide after receiving a series of letters encouraging her to do so. In “The Continuous Equality of the Circumference,” an allegory of perfection taken to the extreme, protagonist Ada transforms her body into the shape of a circle, first by gaining weight and then by cutting off her arms and legs. “Roberto,” the brief and off-kilter opener, features a schoolgirl with a bunny growing between her legs who’s preyed upon by her math teacher. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation. ![]() ![]() In Argentine writer Bazterrica’s provocative collection (after the novel Tender Is the Flesh), scenes of fantastical metamorphoses add a touch of levity to disturbing chronicles of self-mutilation and suicide. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I remembered why people wanted to live." Do you think he has ever believed she loves and needs him every bit as much he loves and needs her? ![]() But when the truth finally comes out, she says to him, "Life made sense again, when I met you, Leo.
![]() I love the way Meliara's adversary, the Marquis of Shevraeth, is characterized as inscrutable and sort of omniscient. The second is about her future in the new court that is forming. The first book is about a young "barefoot countess" who leads a revolt against a despotic king. I enjoyed them, though not unto keeper status. ![]() ![]() It's a stronger, more intense story than the "Wren" books, and Smith sure isn't afraid to hurt her characters.-RebekahĪnd I finally read Sherwood Smith's CROWN DUEL and COURT DUEL. As usual for Smith, the main characters (and surrounding ones) were very likeable and close to your heart. ![]() Who recommends: JW, Edith, Rebekah, Preeti, Catie, Barbara, Danielle, Margaretįar and away Smith's best yet! A simple plot structure - the main character is captured and spends most of the book trying to get home - but subtle and complex enough to stay interesting. ![]() ![]() ![]() Incredibly closer to the children, this book is presented by Dr Kalam to give a purpose and proceed it to the younger lot. The only thing that is required is to give wings to that fire.Ĭlick to buy: Wings of Fire 2. The idea behind the book is that we all are born with the fire inside us. It will present you deep insight into various notable events of his life. It is the autobiography of the Missile Man of India. Some critical Books by Bharat Ratna APJ Abdul Kalam are: 1. Deservingly three books received prestigious awards including Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan, Bharat Ratna, Veer Savarkar Award, and Ramanujan Awards. ![]() Therefore we will focus on the learnings he wanted to implant in students and will also have a look at his books which can provide lifetime learning.ĭr Kalam authored many books. The theme of World Students’ Day 2020 is “Learning for people, planet, prosperity, and peace”. ![]() ![]() ![]() We have selected some of the best books for both intrepid and armchair travellers. But all of it is permeated with the suffering of its people under one of the world’s most repressive regimes.Ģ013 saw a lift of Western sanctions on the country against its political rule, and it has since welcomed an influx of tourists looking to explore its lost temples and colourful history, where the 21st century has barely left a footprint. However in the 1930s, when George Orwell wrote about a country suppressed, ruled by colonial Britain which exiled its royal family, interest was sparked and continues to flourish. Sitting in the west of South East Asia, sharing borders with Bangladesh, China, Thailand, Laos and India, Burma has spent much of its history cut off from the rest of the world. ![]() |