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It took a long-haul flight from Mumbai to Vancouver for me to finally experience a comic bookstore I’d only read about online and watched wi...

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by American writer and poet Ambrose Bierce is the poignant and haunting tale of Peyton Farquhar, a well-t...

MGM's A Stranger in Town will hopefully be the first of many classic films I'll be watching in the days, weeks and months ahead. Fo...

© Images and Video: Prashant C. Trikannad Is buying and reading paper books a declining art form and a cultural tradition?   It certainly ap...

Image: Adapted from the movie Mr. Bean's Holiday . First, the writer's oath (all my own work). "I swear by the almighty diction...

As a journalist many years ago, I was intrigued by the writing process and referred to writing guides such as The Economist Style Guide, The...

In 1897, Adolph S. Ochs, the owner of The New York Times, coined the famous slogan — All the News That's Fit to Print — indicating the n...

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides and Shiver by Allie Reynolds were gifts from my daughter. She'd enjoyed reading both the thrill...