‘Shantaram’ trailer: Charlie Hunnam leads web series based on the Gregory David Roberts novel
Steve Lightfoot’s series, directed by Bharat Nalluri, is set in Mumbai in the 1980s. Three of 12 episodes will be released on Apple TV+ on October 14.

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‘Prove we are Bangladeshi’: Assam families protest Supreme Court’s deportation push
A new book recounts how 21-year-old Satyam Gandhi cleared the UPSC examinations on the first try
How to move on from feeling stuck in life
Why drones are surveying Indian villages
2025 International Booker Prize: Kannada writer Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi longlisted
Lessons from India’s sex worker activists on surviving USAID freeze
The lives of a 5th-century philosopher and a modern-day college professor collide in this novel
Conversations in a Berlin cafe: As the far-right AfD makes unprecedented gains, Germany loses
Sunday book pick: ‘We Do Not Part’ by Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature