An African American girl is desperate to tame her wild curls and get a hairdo that she has seen in a video tutorial. Why? The answer seems to have won Hair Love the Oscar for Best Animated Short film this year. The film has been directed by Matthew A Cherry, Everett Downing Jr and Bruce W Smith and features the voice of Issa Rae.
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Five of the best international nonfiction books of 2024 – according to expert readers
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The best films we watched in 2024
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The best Indian web series of 2024, led by ‘Raat Jawaan Hai’
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A Hindu festival called Christmas: Encounters between a non-practising Hindu and Roman Catholicism
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‘Baby John’ review: What a way to end the year
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‘There was no loss, no gain’: This new book is an essential guide to understanding Ghalib’s couplets
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The ten best international novels of 2024 – according to literary experts
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‘The Surti is a rangila’: In her memoir, a former IAS officer reflects on her posting in Surat
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How Manmohan Singh took to economics, and got interested in politics, in college
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227 years of Mirza Ghalib: How the mystic poet rethought the concept of ‘man’ in his couplets