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Image: Marvel StudiosComic-Con is looming on the horizon, and that typically means some big announcements courtesy of Hall H. It’s been a few years since Marvel Studios had a panel to themselves, and the last time they did, they announced a lot of stuff—like Thor: Love & Thunder, Shang-Chi, and Hawkeye—most of which has now seen the light of day. If you’ve been missing the MCU’s presence at the summer nerd event over the last couple of years, you’re in luck, because they’re showing up at San Diego Comic-Con.Marvel…

Bollywood celebrities are known for their outrageous purchases be it swanky watches, lavish houses or expensive jewellery. But, when it comes to swanky cars, they make sure that their garage looks the best and has the latest ride parked in it. So, from Shahid Kapoor, and Saif Ali Khan to Shanaya Kapoor – here is a list of celebrities who have recently made an expensive addition to their fleet. Saif Ali Khan Starting with Saif Ali Khan, the actor recently bought a Mercedes-Benz S450 which has a price tag of Rs 1.60 crore.…

Time and again in the course of my experience as a birdwatcher, I have fallen in with persons who have left me with a feeling, as they withdraw, that they were inwardly tapping a pitying finger on their foreheads. Their first glimpse of me very often has, it is true, been of a distinctly shabby khaki-clad individual of the garage mechanic type, wandering leisurely and rather aimlessly about the countryside and surreptitiously peeping into bushes, and holes in tree trunks and earth banks. At times they have seen me…

Jennifer Egan: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron LanierLanier’s provocatively titled book may in itself appear divisive, but the tools for unity are abundant within this brief and lucid volume. Chief among them is Lanier’s reminder that strife and division –– conflict, in other words –– are encouraged, incited, stoked and rewarded by the online platforms that many of us use to communicate. Lanier is a longtime tech insider (he coined the phrase “virtual reality” in the 1980s) who…

Claire Rushbrook and Adeel Akhtar are the middle-aged lovers defying familial prejudice and cultural barriers in Ali & Ava (arriving on major VOD platforms on Monday), but that’s only one of the romances unfolding in British director Clio Barnard’s gentle, sentimental film. More metaphorically, Ali & Ava extends Barnard’s ongoing devotion to the Yorkshire city of Bradford, not far from her own home town of Otley.It’s her third film set in the once-booming beneficiary of the Industrial Revolution, and while she…

Photo by Joe Maher/Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Fans of The G.O.A.T. rejoice: there’s a new film based on Muhammad Ali’s life in the works. A God Amongst Men will see For Life‘s Nicholas Pinnock take on the role of the heavyweight champion alongside the former Doctor Who star, Christopher Eccleston. While it has not been officially specified, Eccleston will most likely play Johnny Walker, the man who brought Ali to a small town boxing club in England. As reported by Variety, A God Amongst Men will be directed by…

‘Fortnite’ is no stranger to mash ups and collaborations, featuring everything from ‘Halo’ and the Master Chief to the latest Marvel movies, as well as bringing celebrities and influencers into the game such as Marshmello, Ninja, The Grefg, and Major Lazer. The latest to be added to this collection is YouTuber Ali A. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';…

It must have been interesting to grow up in Jamshedpur in the 1970s. What was your childhood like and how did you begin writing? I think the first kind of writing I ever did was poetry in English. It was back at school in Jamshedpur when I was in the 9th standard. It was a sort of anti-establishment poetry. There was also a relationship-sweetness type of thing in it. I used to show it to my English teacher, Deepa Sengupta, who was kind enough to go through it and sometimes give me a review. I still remember some of her…