Watch: Xmas-themed ‘Spirited’ musical film stars Ryan Reynolds, Will Ferrell and Octavia Spencer
Sean Anders’s new version of ‘A Christmas Carol’ will be streamed on Apple TV+ on November 18.

From the memoir: A longtime Indian Railways employee remembers her first posting at a remote station
‘I Am on the Hit List’: A lament for Gauri Lankesh, and a country that lost its way
Why India has the worst amputation epidemic in the world
Haryana removes Eid-ul-Fitr as gazetted holiday, cites end of financial year
BTech placements plunge by over 10 percentage points in more than half of IITs since 2021-’22
What the absurdist imagery from Istanbul teaches us about protest in the digital era
Business memoir: Manish Vij chronicles his entrepreneurial journey through his startup LetsBuy
In Kerala, the disastrous ripple effects of seabed sand mining
How South Africa is trying to deal with public servants lying about their qualifications
How Hindutva’s politics of renaming burdens Indian Muslims with imaginary historical guilt