Beyond BollywoodWhile 'Indian popular cinema', as if by default, has come to mean Bollywood, there are other cinemas in India which are at least as rewarding to study, the largest and perhaps most intriguing among them coming from South India. Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada cinemas have their own colourful histories, megastars and political trajectories. This anthology is an attempt to do justice to the bewildering variety there is in the body as a whole and

a land of mystery and enchantment

and love for the game that propelled him through challenges that would have ruined other athletes

she does for it what Mark Kurlansky in Salt did for that common commodity

An orca is an amazing kind of whale

In the early 1980s

drink and drugs

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those were disasters

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