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Thursday, September 4, 2025
TopicJ.K. Rowling

Topic: J.K. Rowling

You come for Fantastic Beasts 3 but stay for Hogwarts — it’s only for Potterheads

Unlike 'Harry Potter' films that had Rowling's books to rely upon, Fantastic Beasts 3 was written for the screen. That was its ultimate test.

Why Nigerian author Adichie’s essay attacking woke and cancel culture has courted controversy

Adichie's essay written in response to a social media trial that called her a 'transphobe' and 'trans exclusionary radical feminist' has been redacted, but it drew widespread attention.

How ‘cancel culture’ has turned liberals against each other and is rocking newsrooms

In episode 523 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta delves into the controversy surrounding the Harper's Magazine letter, NYT editor Bari Weiss' resignation & growing trend of cancel culture.

‘Feel like more of a woman when you punch down?’ — JK Rowling faces ire for anti-trans tweets

Harry Potter author JK Rowling reinvoked the sex v/s gender debate after she implied that only 'women' menstruated.

J.K. Rowling releases first two chapters of her new book ‘The Ickabog’ online for free

The author said the book is a story about ‘truth and the abuse of power’ and she began working on it ‘in fits and starts’ between Harry Potter books. 

Daniel Radcliffe, Eddie Redmayne, Beckham bring Hogwarts home with Harry Potter readings

Actor Daniel Radcliffe kicked off the #HarryPotterAtHome initiative by reading the first chapter of 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'.

A Himalayan village under Rowling’s spell after writer replies to young fan’s wish to meet her

A write-up by Kulsum Banoo Batt about her desire to meet Rowling was shared on Twitter by her teachers and caught the author’s attention. New...

He may be The Boy Who Lived, but Harry Potter is actually more about death

This theme at the core of Rowling’s wizarding world speaks directly to a universal human reality: The struggle to come to terms with our mortalit

GLOBAL PULSE: Americans are not winning in Afghanistan, punishing nations that don’t take refugees and being blocked by Trump

FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN WITHOUT A STRATEGY US Defense Secretary James Mattis made an alarming admission: “We are not winning in Afghanistan right now.”

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.