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Sunday, August 17, 2025
TopicTrue Crime

Topic: True Crime

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.

Serial killers and gore now have a growing base in India — on Netflix, Instagram, Spotify

Delhi Crime, Burari Deaths, Indian Predator — viewers can now look beyond US for some 'good, ghoulish fun'. True crime's time has arrived.

Pakistanis latch onto ‘Notes on a Scandal’, true crime podcast on death of a poet

‘Notes on a scandal’ tells the story of former government official and Urdu Poet Mustafa Zaidi, who passed away 50 years ago, under mysterious circumstances.

Cliched, exaggerated—Netflix’s serial killer in ‘Indian Predator’ is only an archetype

Ayesha Sood’s Indian Predator: The Butcher of Delhi delves into the life of Chandrakant Jha, a migrant worker from Bihar turned serial killer with a grudge against the system.

Obsessed with true crime? Hotstar’s Only Murders with Steve Martin is the parody you need

Beware, crime show fans, Steve Martin and John Hoffman’s new show will make fun of you too.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?