Memoirs
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Prince Harry’s memoir ‘Spare’: Complicated grief and the impact of losing a mother so young
The book is being marketed as a story about the ‘eternal power of love over grief’.
Sarah Wayland, The Conversation
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Deepti Naval on her memoir: ‘It’s like watching a movie, where you’re with me’
The acclaimed actor returns to her first love, writing, with ‘A Country Called Childhood’.
Nandini Ramnath
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What Priyanka Chopra’s memoir says about her move to Hollywood, trolling and coping with grief
‘Unfinished’ includes the movie’s star’s perspective on the Mother Teresa blooper and the controversial photograph with Narendra Modi.
Scroll Staff
Trending
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Has Modi’s Vande Bharat push come at the cost of train safety?
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How the East India Company tried to use paintings to lionise Robert Clive – and failed
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Sexual harassment allegations by wrestlers are horrific – so why is Modi still backing Singh?
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Manipur violence: Several deaths as mob torches ambulance in Imphal
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June fiction reading list: Six recently novels and short story collections by Indian authors
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Her father’s memories were slipping away. She made him tell stories so that he could hold on to them
‘Would these forgotten stories in turn help him reconstruct a sense of self?’
Ranu Bhattacharyya
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When Amrita Pritam wove her autobiography around love, she also demonstrated the many ways to love
In her centenary year, Amrita Pritam’s personal story, written in narrative fragments, take us back to the tumultuous role of love in her life.
Gayathri Prabhu
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The question raised by Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s ‘An Ordinary Life’: Is memory to be trusted?
A subjective account will necessarily ruffle feathers, as publishing history proves.
Archana Nathan
Video
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Watch: Comedian Danish Sait hilariously spoofs a debate between vegetarians and non-vegetarians
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Watch: Manchester City players, staff serenade Elton John with a rendition of ‘Your Song’ at airport
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Watch: Captured rogue elephant Arikomban is transported in a lorry as onlookers cheer
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Watch: Scenes from the collapse of the bridge over the Ganga in Bihar
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Watch: Elephant charges at safari jeep in Karnataka forest, driver reverses vehicle in time
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Memoirs by Karan Johar, Rishi Kapoor prove that celebrities want to take charge of their own stories
Exit professional biographer, enter the scribe? Fortunately for the reader, both books are hugely readable.
Nandini Ramnath
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Bryan Cranston’s memoir maps the long and hard road to ‘Breaking Bad’
‘A Life in Parts’ is a candid and unsanitised chronicle of the celebrated actor’s struggle to overcome his tough childhood.
Ankita Chawla
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What a young woman wrote in a handbook for her lover
When polygamy is reluctant, despite a partner who doesn’t demand monogamy.
Rosalyn D’Mello
The Reel
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Watch: Trailer of ‘The Night Manager’ part two is out
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‘Satyaprem Ki Katha’ trailer: Romantic film stars Kartik Aaryan, Kiara Advani
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Tigmanshu Dhulia on Irrfan: ‘His observation of life was very surgical, very meticulous’
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Start the week with a film: ‘Charlie’s Country’ is a powerful portrait of defiance
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‘Scoop’ review: A flat view of a highly irregular case of police overreach