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Entertainment review: It is Akshay Kumar's funniest film since Hera Pheri

Brace yourselves for the shock of your lifetime: Entertainment is sheer genius. It’s the funniest Akshay Kumar film since Hera Pheri.

Activist athletes like Moeen Ali need to be praised, not silenced

Sports needs more athletes like Moeen Ali, who took a stand on the Israel - Palestine conflict.

High court comes tough on illegal hoarding, will civic bodies comply?

Politicians, and more often their followers, put them up either to proclaim their own or their leaders’ birthdays or appointments either in government or to some nominal post within the party’s borough branch itself. They curry favour with leaders, thanking them for support.

Yudh week 4: Big B tries to kill his clown, Yudh's wife is shot, still no Nawazuddin

The promos of Yudh for next week insist that Siddiqui does actually make an appearance on the show. He appears to be throwing a temper tantrum with Yudh and then using a machine gun.

Guardians of the Galaxy review: It's this generation's Star Wars

With its many characters and landscapes, the universe imagined in Guardians is vast. Marvel continues to close the gap between the Avengers and the Guardians, and it’s insane to think of what we’ll get in the future.

Life without Luis Suarez: Where are Liverpool's goals going to come from?

Luis Suarez’s 31 goals won him a motley of personal honours, but more importantly, en route to staying atop the Premier League goal scoring charts from start to finish, guided Liverpool back to the Champions League, a competition they last played in in 2010.

Insecure Indians: The Maria Sharapova haters should just grow up

On 2 July in a press conference, Maria Sharapova, five times a Grand Slam winner, admitted she had no idea who Tendulkar was.

How Twitter and Facebook shaped the way we watched World Cup 2014

If you are under the age of 40, think about how you watched the current FIFA World Cup.

Sania Mirza controversy: India's 'ladki toh paraya dhan' ideology is to blame

By repeatedly bringing up the identity of her spouse, Mr Laxman is implying that a woman losses her own identity post-marriage. How can Sania be Indian when her husband is Pakistani?

Thoughts from India's win at Lord's: Doomed Shaz, Super Waz, heroic India

Bhuvneshwar, Rahane, Vijay, Jadeja, Sharma – good, solid Indian names, and they emerged as heroes – now, when Kohli and Dhawan click in the next three Tests, watch out.

Non-Brahmin, women priests at Vittal temple, but orthodoxy still lives

Of the 199 applications from non-Brahmins and women, 10 have been appointed.

The real tragedy of Indian basketball

Indians learned to love the game because it is relatively simple to play, requires little space and infrastructure and thanks to substitutions can accommodate many players at once.

'Look Who's Talking with Niranjan' recap: Karan Johar is a 42-year-old virgin

Look Who’s Talking With Niranjan is the new celebrity interview show in town. What? Another celebrity interview show? What’s the novelty in that? Well, it seems the novelty is the host this time around and not the guests – because the guests have been interviewed to death before.

Now, accidents rival poaching as key threat to leopards in India

Figures from Karnataka show that for every three leopards poached, two come under vehicular traffic. And few of these killer roads pass through sanctuaries or national parks.

Yudh Week 3: Lesbian frisson, flirtatious Maoists, bomb blasts and more

There are definite signs of improvement in Yudh, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

22 Jump Street review: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum bring the bromance back

22 Jump Street continues the goofy adventures of the 21 Jump Street duo, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) as they graduate to going undercover at a university.

Thane: Don't believe glossy real estate ads, this city is no escape from Mumbai

Thane suffers from a highly politicised municipal governance that is ineffective -- its green cover claims are dubious, it has no idea how to deal with the fastest growing population and its infrastructure is crumbling.

Forget good rains, Mumbai doesn't deserve even a normal monsoon

There is no other way of overcoming the administrative ills. Just change the factors that expose the inadequacies and believe all is well.

Justice Katju's revelations: Why we can't treat IB reports as sacred cows

When it comes to judicial appointments, everyone quotes the IB report as if it was a sacred cow that cannot be commented upon. This needs questioning.

When time is stretchable: What CBI's latest failure in Badaun gangrape shows

If anything could tell us about how we as a country have utter disregard for time, then it is from the inundation of the graves of the two Badaun girls.

Pizza 3D review: Not a pathbreaking horror film at all, this one

Pizza 3D's fatal problem - when you know when the jump scares are going to pop up and it’s difficult to be scared.

Amit Sahni ki List review: Vir Das stars in a boring, shallow rom-com

Amit Sahni Ki List, a fluffy rom-com directed by Ajay Bhuyan, is so eminently forgettable that I had to google the director’s name half an hour after seeing the credits roll.

Yudh week 1: Amitabh Bachchan stars in a case of 'what the hell is going on'?

I’ve realised what the inspiration for Yudh is: David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive.

Review: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is one of the best sequels ever

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is an astonishing achievement. The easiest way to describe it would be to say it is the best sequel since The Dark Knight.

Why is the media ignoring the plight of drought striken farmers?

One does not expect breast-beating reportage, but we are entitled to know if farmers bought their seeds even as they tried tilling their lands anticipating the monsoon

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes review: The film deserves an Oscar

Andy Serkis is God. That’s it. Those four words up there are pretty much all you need to hear in terms of a reason to go watch Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes in theatres.

The Anupam Kher Show: Shah Rukh spills a few secrets

On Sunday night, a brand new celebrity interview show began – The Anupam Kher Show, with the tagline Kucch Bhi Ho Sakta Hai. The show has Kher, a Bollywood veteran, interviewing other Bollywood stars on a couch.

'Muslim Personal Law is a stick for Hindu communalists to beat Muslims with'

Muslim Personal Law is a convenient stick for Hindu communalists to beat Muslims with.

Bobby Jasoos review: Vidya Balan is good but the film has fatal flaws

Bobby Jasoos is a polished product that hides very basic flaws.

Lessons from the success story of Great Himalayan National Park

This treasure trove of nature now has a world heritage site tag to flaunt, as a testimony to its ecological worth and conservation efforts. Will the fairy tale hold under pressure for infrastructure building?