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This week's Bollywood flick: Kuch Naa Kaho
Raj live in New York and is close to his mother. But there's one niggling issue that separates them -- Raj's mother wants her son to marry. When Raj visits India, his uncle blackmails him into agreeing to meet with eligible girls. But the person his uncle chooses as the matchmaker for these meetings is Namrata -- the one person Raj has already antagonized during his 24 hours in Mumbai.
This week's literature: The Chimney Sweeper's Boy by Barbara Vine
Bestselling and critically acclaimed novelist Gerald Candless dies suddenly, and leave behind a wife and two doting daughters. To sort through their grief, his daughter Sarah puts aside her university studies and agrees to write a biography of her famous father. But as she begins her research and pulls back the veil of his past, her life is slowly torn apart; a terrible logic begins to unfold that explains her mother's remoteness, her father's need to continually reinvent himself--and sheds shocking light on a long-forgotten London murder.
Raj live in New York and is close to his mother. But there's one niggling issue that separates them -- Raj's mother wants her son to marry. When Raj visits India, his uncle blackmails him into agreeing to meet with eligible girls. But the person his uncle chooses as the matchmaker for these meetings is Namrata -- the one person Raj has already antagonized during his 24 hours in Mumbai.
This week's literature: The Chimney Sweeper's Boy by Barbara Vine
Bestselling and critically acclaimed novelist Gerald Candless dies suddenly, and leave behind a wife and two doting daughters. To sort through their grief, his daughter Sarah puts aside her university studies and agrees to write a biography of her famous father. But as she begins her research and pulls back the veil of his past, her life is slowly torn apart; a terrible logic begins to unfold that explains her mother's remoteness, her father's need to continually reinvent himself--and sheds shocking light on a long-forgotten London murder.