Watch: Mahesh Babu plays a loan recovery agent in ‘Sarkaru Vaari Paata’
Parasuram Petla’s Telugu film, co-starring Keerthy Suresh, will be out in cinemas on May 12. The cast includes Samuthirakani, Vennela Kishore and Subbaraju.

Why a court ban on encrypted email service Proton Mail has sparked digital privacy fears
Start the week with a film: In ‘Moonwalk’, Michael Jackson comes to Kerala
‘In our house of the omnipresent / we are more than vaastu compliant’: Mani Rao’s new book of poems
Panic and fear: How Bombay experienced the Great Uprising of 1857
A new book tells beginners how to invest directly in stocks (instead of mutual fund schemes)
Kerala nuns held in Chhattisgarh for alleged religious conversion, bishops’ group calls case ‘false’
From history: How Marthanda Varma of Travancore fended off Europeans who coveted his kingdom
Banking, airlines, railways, coal, jute, newspapers: Ramkrishna Dalmia’s business-building spree
A heart full of ahimsa: Ruth Beaglehole’s parenting revolution
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