Janhavi Acharekar

1 week ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Janhavi Acharekar |Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy

“I think of Goa as a beautiful woman draped in a green sari,” said Debbie, my guide to Goa’s hinterland, when I was writing a travel book on Mumbai and Goa, and gathering information for my novel. But that was 17 years ago and much has changed in Goa since. As a frequent visitor (and sometime resident) since childhood, I have seen the Goan landscape changing. According to a recent report, the State has lost 90 square kilometres of tree cover in the past decade.

2 months ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Annie Zaidi |Janhavi Acharekar |Divya Gandhi |Vaishna Roy

Annie Zaidi’s new novel, The Comeback, is a delightful journey into the heart of Indian theatre, with a focus on small-town India. Set in the fictional town of Baansa, near Lucknow, it traces the trajectory of an actor, John K, and his friendship with childhood friend Asghar. It is the story of a close friendship soured by John’s irresponsible comment in a magazine interview, following his rise in popularity.

Jul 26, 2024 | thehindu.com | Janhavi Acharekar

How does one anthologise writings about a city that is equally seductive and repugnant? A city that has been a writer’s muse from the time of its existence? In Maya Nagari — Bombay-Mumbai: A City in Stories, editors Shanta Gokhale and Jerry Pinto clarify that they didn’t set out to capture the financial capital in a book; they simply compiled a list of stories they had read and loved.

Jul 9, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Janhavi Acharekar |Talmiz Ahmad |M. Suresh Babu |T.K. Rajalakshmi

The artist Keren Souza Kohn, daughter of the legendary artist Francis Newton Souza (1924-2002), narrated an anecdote her father had once shared with her at his New York apartment. It was about his days in his home State, Goa, where he would often sketch outdoors and small crowds of onlookers would gather to watch him. On one such occasion, he overheard a man in the group reassuring another: “Don’t worry.

Jul 9, 2024 | flipboard.com | Janhavi Acharekar

Karan Johar on remuneration of stars, changing audience taste: Industry is in a creative crisisThere are about ten viable actors in Hindi cinema and they are asking for "sun, moon and earth" and they are being paid that amount, says filmmaker …