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After winning the Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Award for Best Children’s Non-Fiction Book 2022, you tweeted that you “never thought a detective mongoose would be nominated for ‘non fiction’, a comic book with violence and sex would make it to the kids’ category, or a full fledged mischief party with no social message would win a book prize.” Why is it hard to believe that Naturalist Ruddy resonates with readers in this way? What kind of reception did you expect? PREMIUM Author and illustrator Rohan…

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 3: Chris Pratt Gives A NSFW Reaction To His Star-Lord Doll(Photo Credit –Instagram/Poster) The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 is currently on the verge of becoming one of the highest-grossing movies of the franchise as it is getting love from fans worldwide. As it is the last movie directed by James Gunn for the MCU, the cast has been showing praise and love for the crew as they might have appeared for the last time playing their characters in the GOTG trilogy. Adding to it, the Star-Lord…

You were born during the Lebanese civil war. When did you understand the gravity of it and decide to write stories about it? Graphic novelist Zeina Abirached (Courtesy the author) The Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, and I was born in the middle of it in 1981 in the eastern part of Beirut that was already torn into two by the demarcation line. Since I never knew anything else besides the war, I thought it was normal to grow up and live like that. It is only when the war ended in 1990 that I understood it…

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, the latest film adaptation of the classic tabletop role-playing game, is set to hit theatres on March 31, 2023. Directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, the movie promises to bring the rich world and playful spirit of the game to the big screen in an original story about a team of misfits who embark on an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves trailer showcases monstrous humourThe international trailer for the movie…

ChatGPT’s Humour, answers the query about the leadership of Elon Musk! Read more tech news Good morning tech fam, here are some quick tech updates for you to catch on to! What’s New Today: ‘Will Cooperate With CCI,’ Google declares as the Supreme Court orders the tech giant to deposit a 10% penalty amount. Fast-Track Insights: Billionaire’s VC Fund Profited $1.8 Billion by Selling Crypto Before the Market Crash A report says, according to ChatGPT, the only drawback of having Elon Musk as the world’s leader would be…

Born in 1975, Shehan Karunatilaka is the Sri Lankan author of two novels. Chinaman (2010) won the Commonwealth book prize and was declared the second-best cricket book of all time by Wisden. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is set in war-torn Sri Lanka in 1989, and is about a dead war photographer trying to find out who killed him; last month it was shortlisted for the Booker prize (the winner will be announced on 17 October). Karunatilaka lived in London and New Zealand, among other places, before returning to Colombo,…

We usually think of hospitals as somewhere safe, where patients get better or move on. The quote from Dante’s The Divine Comedy prefacing Austin Duffy’s latest novel implies an extreme version of this liminal space. This is underlined when his protagonist suggests his workplace resembles “one of those medieval paintings of hell, swarming with devils and the wretched”. The demons are the medical staff “directing the show”, the wretched are their helpless patients.The unnamed narrator is one of a trio of surgical interns on…

Brooks and Jackson use their voice to deliver their dialogue with comic timing and gusto and so do the rest of the voice cast. The script is downright silly but fails to bring on the laughs in a big way Still from Paws of Fury: The legend of Hank Film: Paws of Fury: The legend of HankCast (voices): Michael Cera, Samuel L. Jackson, Ricky Gervais, Kylie Kuioka, Mel Brooks, George Takei, Gabriel Iglesias, Djimon Hounsou, Aasif…

The Duke of Sussex Prince Harry's friends complained that his wife, former actor and the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle 'lacked any sense of humour'. In Revenge: Meghan, Harry And The War Between The Windsors, author Tom Bower wrote how Meghan shot down the 'inappropriate' jokes made by Harry's friends. (Also Read | Fans support Meghan Markle amid reports of her bullying Buckingham Palace staff)As per Tom, Prince Harry's friends came to meet them on a weekend at England's Sandringham in 2016. Harry invited over a dozen…

“Maybe we can live without libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure. We’re too old to change the world. But what about that kid sitting down, opening a book right now in a branch of the local library, and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees in The Cat in the Hat and The Five Chinese Brothers? Doesn’t he deserve better? Look, if you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you’d better think again. This is about that kid’s right to read a book without getting his mind warped. Or maybe that turns you…