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Wednesday, April 8, 2026
TopicCrime thriller

Topic: crime thriller

Women of suspense: The female crime writers reimagining power and vulnerability

Authors Hemangini Dutta Majumder, Vasundhara Kashyap & Richa S. Mukherjee discuss crime fiction & reality at a session led by Payal Raman at 1st Jindal Literature Festival.

Lazy writing drowns Neeyat, Blind, Gaslight. Bollywood just doesn’t get whodunit right

Whodunnits have never been Bollywood's strong suit. Those that have worked at the box office are either borrowed, copied or remade versions—frame-by-frame—of South Indian films.

Shravan Tiwari’s Aazam has a killer script & Jimmy Sheirgill. Everything else is forgettable

Shravan Tiwari’s Aazam is set in the dark underbelly of Mumbai focussing on a mafia power struggle.

On Camera

Rahul Gandhi wants to jail Himanta Sarma but Congress has a Bihar-sized problem in Assam

The Congress has promised Rs 50,000 assistance to each woman but as we've seen in many recent elections, voters seem to be conscious of the proverb: 'A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.'

Stocks fall, oil prices climb as Trump issues fresh threat to Iran ahead of his deadline

Fears that an escalation of the conflict could heighten a fuel squeeze & endanger the economy unnerved traders, with NYT reporting Iran stopped negotiating a truce with the US.

UAE walks away from financing Rafale F5 due to restricted access to technology, reports French media

French newspaper La Tribune earlier last week indicated that UAE withdrew from deal to fund EUR 3.5 billion. India is looking to order 114 new Rafales, which could include the F5.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.