. . ‘Valiant Parsis in War and Peace’ by Marzban Giara, highlights our community’s military stalwarts like Field Marshal Sam HFJ Maneckshaw, all the Parsi service chiefs, and other highest-ranking officers of the Army, Navy and Air Force. The foreword by retired Air Chief Marshal Fali H Major introduces the book to readers as ‘the […]
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Caption This – January 13, 2018
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Film Review: DOWNSIZING
Imagine the plight of this planet a couple of decades hence — overpopulated to the extent of being almost uninhabitable, with dwindling resources and unmanageable waste. Scientists have been confounded. But not Hollywood’s filmmakers. Director Alexander Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor seem to have found the ultimate remedy. The film opens somewhere in the future […]
Film Review: PADDINGTON 2
The bear is carnivorous, but it can also be cute and cuddly, as Paddington 2 – following up on its hugely successful earlier instalment of 2014 – tells us over a delightful and rapturous 102 minutes of fun-filled fantasy. The marmalade-loving Paddington Bear (adroitly voiced once again by the talented Ben Wishaw), is now firmly […]
Caption This – January 06, 2018
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New Year Contest Results
We thank all our readers for sending in an overwhelming response to our New Year Contest. Congratulations to the following Top 3 Winners! . Ding Dong Tolls The Bell – By Ruby Daruwalla Ding dong tolls the bell, With its chime, the year 2017 fell. The whole world tried to pick it up, and […]
Film Review: All The Money In The World
The film was almost ready for release when news of Kevin Spacey’s alleged sexual misconduct hit headlines and prompted the studio to beckon the 88-year-old Christopher Plummer – the oldest to win an Academy Award, at 82. The 80-year-old Ridley Scott pulled off a near miracle by refilming Spacey’s scenes (as the multi-billionaire John Paul […]
Caption This – December 30, 2017
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Caption This – December 23, 2017
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FILM REVIEW: TIGER ZINDA HAI
‘Shikar toh sab karte hain lekin Tiger se behtar shikar koi nahi karta.’ This needless allusion here is to wonderboy Avinash Rathore aka Tiger (Salman Khan, as if we didn’t know), who single-handedly, sometimes with the help of a bazooka, knocks off a mini-army in the barren tracts of Abu Dhabi, which is attempted to […]