Fuddu, a comedy about the misadventures of a migrant from Varanasi, has had to shed close to 20 minutes of its running time. The Girl on the Train loses ‘visuals of jerk movement in the woods’.
Reading
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How the Sassoons of Bombay became one of China’s wealthiest families
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‘No Pausa’ walks with women on long road through menopause
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A book of real-life accounts from the Indian Air Force honours those who took part in the 1962 war
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Proposed Waqf Act amendments strike a discriminatory note for Muslim charitable organisations
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How the Sri Lankan civil war made its way into a French film about an undercover cop
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Family history: A writer investigates why her great-grandfather chose to sail to South Africa
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How the 1958 Mundhra scam exposed the nexus between LIC, the bureaucracy and rogue businessmen
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Booker Prize review: Desire, suspicion, and obsession comprise the emotional core of ‘The Safekeep’
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November global nonfiction: Start a new month with these recent books, including Orhan Pamuk’s
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Hounded around the world, the first ‘man-made man’ took refuge in India