Kala

Dear Reader, PREMIUM Shantanu Ray Chaudhri, Michaela Talwar and Aditi Mediratta ( seated l to r) at the David Sassoon Library Garden(. Photo courtesy author) At the David Sassoon Library, a sculpture of cascading books opens out into a little garden. People are discussing Naked, a murder mystery set in Mumbai, co-written by Aditi Mediratta and Michaela Talwar. Despite the provocative title and the swear words inside, the book has not offended anybody, the authors say. At least not yet. But times are changing.…

Colin Walsh’s remarkably assured debut begins with an epigraph from Margaret Atwood. In Atwood’s 1988 novel Cat’s Eye, an artist returns to her Canadian home town only to be flooded with painful memories from her youth, particularly related to her estranged friend – and erstwhile bully – Cordelia. In Walsh’s novel, it is the eponymous Kala who plagues the memories of her former friends as they reunite for the first time in more than a decade in the Irish seaside village of Kinlough.Spiky journalist Helen has returned,…

A dark coming-of-age novel, this is an impressive debut from Irish author Colin Walsh, winner of several awards for his short stories and named in 2019 the Hennessy new Irish writer of the year. It’s set in 2018 in Kinlough, on the west coast of Ireland, where three friends recall the summer they spent together 15 years earlier. Helen, Joe and Mush belonged to a gang of six teenagers with beautiful, intrepid Kala Lanann at their heart. Then Kala disappeared.Using narration by three distinct voices, Walsh brilliantly…

SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter CEO Elon Musk has reacted to an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated image, featuring him as a baby.Twitter user @alifarhat79 posted the AI-generated image of Musk as a baby and wrote, "BREAKING: Elon Musk was reportedly working on some anti aging formula but it got way out of hand."To this, Musk replied, "Guys, I think I maybe took too much." Several users expressed their thoughts on Musk's post. While one user said, "Going to have a hard time reaching the gas pedal on your Tesla."Another…

In celebration of International Women’s Day, Congolese-Canadian singer Lu Kala is joining forces with Spotify to co-curate tracks for its Equal Canada playlist.The playlist aims to highlight Canadian women in music by featuring “a diverse range of inspiring stories of movements around the world, through music and at full volume,” Spotify explained in a press release.Lu Kala’s choices include established Canadian artists like Shania Twain, Fefe Dobson and Jessie Reyez, but also shined the spotlight on rising acts like…

Latto kicks off the weekend with new music.Shortly after delivering her “Smoking on My Ex Pack” freestyle, the ATL rapper returned with “Lottery,” a disco-infused single featuring Congolese-Canadian singer Lu Kala. Latto previewed the joint via Instagram last month, when she shared a video of her throwing cash in the studio alongside Cam and model Brooklyn Nikole.“Pop Latto loading…🍒” she captioned the post.Fast forward to Feb. 9, when Latto confirmed the track’s official release date. “Pop Latto has entered the chat,”…

It`s been years since ‘Kala Chashma’ from `Baar Baar Dekho` was released and we clearly remember how big of a hit the song turned out to be. Not a single day since then has passed when the song has stopped being a party favorite. It`s that song that always excites people and makes them groove at any hour of the day and at any party at night. So, it wouldn`t be surprising to see Hollywood’s biggest stars dancing on ‘Kala Chashma’ as if there is no tomorrow! Excel Entertainment, the…

We grew up reading the history of the losses of the Partition of the Punjab. Anirudh Kala’s novel Two and a Half Rivers tells the story of the Punjab’s immense losses since Partition. Making good use of his own training as a psychiatrist, he spins a yarn that weaves together the various political and cultural schisms that have affected the north-western province and its people with a variety of ailments. Civilizational loss and guilt seems to weigh heavy in the air. This is personified in the title itself, where the…