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Why BJP is asking Gandhi family to return Nehru’s letters to Edwina Mountbatten

The BJP is trying to corner the Congress over Sonia Gandhi allegedly getting removed ‘donated’ papers belonging to Jawaharlal Nehru in 2008, which had letters to several personalities including Edwina Mountbatten and Albert Einstein. The Bharatiya Janata Party is using the issue of these letters, which reportedly include Nehru’s correspondence with Edwina Mountbatten, Albert Einstein, Aruna Asaf Ali and Jayaprakash …

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2 months ago

Suzy Lamplugh murder suspect John Cannan died before new forensic review could be finished, detective who quizzed the killer reveals

Daily Mail

The suspected killer of Suzy Lamplugh went to his grave before police were able to finish a forensic review that could reveal her murderer's identity, a detective close to the unsolved case has revealed. Suzy Lamplugh, a 25-year-old estate agent, vanished on July 28, 1986, after going to show a man around a house in Fulham Convicted killer John Cannan …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Best summer books for 2024: Perfect holiday reads

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Buy now ‘The Secret History’ by Donna Tartt, published by Penguin: £9.19, Amazon.co.uk …

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

Irish author Paul Murray joins Big Weekend of Books to discuss what really happened at the end of The Bee Sting

ABC

A year after The Bee Sting was published — and nine months after it made the Booker Prize shortlist — readers are still speculating about that ending. "An ending that grabs you will stay with you, so that's what I was going for," he tells Raf Epstein for ABC RN's Big Weekend of Books. "You discover that they've got this …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

The Talented Mr. Ripley book is just 99p on Kindle now

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley gripped readers around …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

The talented Mr Ripleys

Live Mint

Fifteen minutes into the second episode of Steven Zaillian’s Netflix miniseries Ripley, Andrew Scott’s titular 1950s conman has his first encounter with sincerity. Zaillian’s black-and-white frames are always beautifully crafted, with some particularly cruel sequences underlining the black humour of Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Talented Mr Ripley, which the show has been based on. In 1999, director Anthony Minghella’s The …

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9 months ago

Ripley's 'dolce vita' is in black and white, but the Amalfi Coast's tiny towns are in technicolour

BBC

Ripley's 'dolce vita' is in black and white, but the Amalfi Coast's tiny towns are in technicolour Netflix Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley comes to a crossroads Despite being a noir thriller, Netflix's Ripley brings new life to Italy's romanticised notion of la dolce vita. La dolce vita, or "the sweet life" – popularised by Federico Fellini's eponymous 1960 film …

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9 months ago

‘Ripley’ Netflix series review: Andrew Scott consummately nails 50 shades of grey

The Hindu

Steven Zaillian’s Ripley is entirely shot in black and white – well not completely, there is one little, teeny, tiny splash of red. Ripley Episodes: 8 Run time: 44 to 76 minutes Creator: Steven Zaillian Starring: Andrew Scott, Johnny Flynn, Dakota Fanning, Vittorio Viviani, Bokeem Woodbine, Eliot Sumner Storyline: A grifter is drawn into a world of wealth and privilege …

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9 months, 1 week ago

‘Ripley’ Review: The Netflix Series Does What ‘Saltburn’ Wouldn’t

Huff Post

Andrew Scott plays the cunning grifter Tom Ripley in "Ripley." Netflix © 2023 In today’s climate, where billionaires are swallowing media companies whole, it seems like every fictional TV or movie plot even marginally concerning wealthy characters must confront a number of familiar questions. To be fair, filmmakers have baited responses like these lately with half-baked ideas about them in …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Ripley on Netflix: Andrew Scott is menacing and mesmerizing.

Slate

This post contains spoilers for Ripley. In an uncharacteristic moment of vehemence in the series, Ripley dismisses a friend of Dickie’s as “such a fraud,” a rich dilettante merely posing as a playwright. Even after Dickie catches Ripley in his room, dressed in Dickie’s clothes, acting out a scene of rejecting Marge in Dickie’s voice, he doesn’t throw Ripley out. …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Ripley review: Andrew Scott is all wrong for this otherwise decent Netflix adaptation

The Independent

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9 months, 1 week ago

Ripley review: 'Masterful' show is 'the Hitchcock series Hitchcock never made'

BBC

Ripley review: 'Masterful' show is 'the Hitchcock series Hitchcock never made' Netflix Andrew Scott stars as the sinister anti-hero in the suspenseful and 'creepy' new Netflix adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's classic novel The Talented Mr Ripley. The great Andrew Scott brings a hum of sinister energy to the role of Tom Ripley, in a psychological thriller full of suspense from …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Andrew Scott and Dakota Fanning say their ‘Ripley’ characters aren’t rivals, ‘they’re frenemies’

LA Times

In early March, as the collective obsession it spawned was at its height, I had the chance to ask: Have Andrew Scott and Dakota Fanning seen the viral TikTok series “Who TF Did I Marry?” The actors were seated in a sparsely decorated holding room at a Hollywood screening venue where their new limited series, “Ripley,” was about to be …

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9 months, 1 week ago

The strange life of Patricia Highsmith, the author behind The Talented Mr Ripley

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The morbid, the cruel, the abnormal fascinates me.” Highsmith …

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11 months, 4 weeks ago

BrewDog: how the anarchic brewery went from progressive to problematic

The Independent

Sign up to IndyEat's free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. BrewDog said: “We’re as bothered about this Portman Group ruling as we are any …

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1 year, 3 months ago

How ‘Only Murders’ put Meryl Streep in ‘the most unexpected romance of the year’

LA Times

Warning: The following contains major spoilers from the Season 3 finale of “Only Murders in the Building.” John Hoffman gets nervous whenever Hulu releases a new “Only Murders in the Building” episode. “But when they’re dropping for the first time, I’m always in a panic.” That’s a particularly understandable reaction to the Season 3 finale, now streaming, which features snippets …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Review: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

Hindustan Times

Once upon a time, there was a family of four. The daughter Cass’s obsession with her best friend grows, and 12-year-old PJ, the younger one, wanders around in a wilderness of family neglect – ripe pickings for bullies and perverts. 640pp, ₹899; Hamish Hamilton Murray’s masterful writing brings to life four complicated characters through their own dedicated chapters: Cass’s pages …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Mourning the 'soul of Yorkshire': Moving moment Michael Parkinson is honoured with one-minute silence at Yorkshire cricket as worlds of sport and showbiz remember chat show king

Daily Mail

A moving one-minute silence at Yorkshire cricket ground was among emotional tributes made in the sport at showbiz world to the 'king of the chat show' Sir Michael Parkinson after his death at the age of 88. A moving one-minute silence at Yorkshire cricket ground was among emotional tributes made in the sport at showbiz world to the 'king of …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Dickie Bird pays heartfelt tribute to his 'true friend' Sir Michael Parkinson, who made one of his last public appearances before his death at the umpire's 90-year-old birthday party

Daily Mail

Dickie Bird paid a heartfelt tribute to his 'true friend' Sir Michael Parkinson on Thursday after the TV talk show icon died aged 88. Parky, a lifelong Yorkshire fan who once had trials for the club, made one of his final public appearances at Headingley in April when he attended Bird's 90th birthday party. Dickie Bird paid tribute to his …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Dickie Bird pays emotional tribute to ‘dearest friend’ Sir Michael Parkinson

The Independent

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1 year, 5 months ago

‘Noah’s Ark’: The UK seed bank saving the future of wild plants

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The purpose is the long-term conservation of plant species” for “many tens if not hundreds of years.” By drying …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Review of Tenzin Dickie’s The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays: The tragedy of exile

The Hindu

Tibet, high on the plateau, has always seemed far away in the imagination. In this new collection, The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays, Dickie has brought together an extraordinary group of Tibetan writers — some writing from abroad, some from within, yet all bound by a shared sense of loss and a shared search for home. ‘Open wound’ Tibet …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Is this fake number plate proof that Suzy Lamplugh was the third young woman murdered by John Cannan in 1986? Now police face a race against time to nail him with DNA from a 37-year-old fingerprint -

Daily Mail

For all the mystery that still surrounds the disappearance of estate agent Suzy Lamplugh, police have only ever suspected one man of killing her. I don’t want anything to do with him.’ Victim Shirley Banks' Mini with the false SLP plate at John Cannan's home Perversely, Cannan’s disturbing bid for freedom comes at the same time that Met Police are …

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1 year, 6 months ago

The meaning of home for Tibetans in exile

Live Mint

For generations of Tibetans born in exile, their homeland is an imagined, mythical one, with history as their father and the culture that nourishes them as their mother. Like Dante, exiled from his beloved “abiding city”—Florence—to which he never returned, for exiled Tibetans, exile is their only reality. As she puts it, “the twin strands of occupation and exile form …

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Why BJP is asking Gandhi family to return Nehru’s letters to Edwina Mountbatten

Suzy Lamplugh murder suspect John Cannan died before new forensic review could be finished, detective who quizzed the killer reveals

Best summer books for 2024: Perfect holiday reads

Irish author Paul Murray joins Big Weekend of Books to discuss what really happened at the end of The Bee Sting

The Talented Mr. Ripley book is just 99p on Kindle now

The talented Mr Ripleys

Ripley's 'dolce vita' is in black and white, but the Amalfi Coast's tiny towns are in technicolour

‘Ripley’ Netflix series review: Andrew Scott consummately nails 50 shades of grey

‘Ripley’ Review: The Netflix Series Does What ‘Saltburn’ Wouldn’t

Ripley on Netflix: Andrew Scott is menacing and mesmerizing.

Ripley review: Andrew Scott is all wrong for this otherwise decent Netflix adaptation

Ripley review: 'Masterful' show is 'the Hitchcock series Hitchcock never made'

Andrew Scott and Dakota Fanning say their ‘Ripley’ characters aren’t rivals, ‘they’re frenemies’

The strange life of Patricia Highsmith, the author behind The Talented Mr Ripley

BrewDog: how the anarchic brewery went from progressive to problematic

How ‘Only Murders’ put Meryl Streep in ‘the most unexpected romance of the year’

Review: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

Mourning the 'soul of Yorkshire': Moving moment Michael Parkinson is honoured with one-minute silence at Yorkshire cricket as worlds of sport and showbiz remember chat show king

Dickie Bird pays heartfelt tribute to his 'true friend' Sir Michael Parkinson, who made one of his last public appearances before his death at the umpire's 90-year-old birthday party

Dickie Bird pays emotional tribute to ‘dearest friend’ Sir Michael Parkinson

‘Noah’s Ark’: The UK seed bank saving the future of wild plants

Review of Tenzin Dickie’s The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays: The tragedy of exile

Is this fake number plate proof that Suzy Lamplugh was the third young woman murdered by John Cannan in 1986? Now police face a race against time to nail him with DNA from a 37-year-old fingerprint -

The meaning of home for Tibetans in exile