Set in the mid 1990s, the story follows Nikhil Jha — a Wall Street investment banker — and the emotional blackmail he faces from his mother, who wants nothing more in the world than to see her son get married.

I live my acting dream via writing, says Singapore Indian playwright Tanuj Khosla, creator of solo act thriller My Dear Arvind

The remarkable thing about the play is how well Khosla, a male playwright, has captured a woman’s hopes and expectations and disappointments normally associated with a female hand penning the words.

Bangalore’s Cubbon Park poet Ruby Naaz asks mums to pull down patriarchy in heartfelt open letter

Ruby, who collaborated with Connected to India for the poem, titled, Hello Mother, wrote it amid the growing violence and atrocities against women in India, the recent being the brutal rape and murder of a junior lady doctor at the state-run RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata, the state capital of eastern India’s West Bengal.

Filmmaker Vikram Singh’s ‘happy accident’ led to his debut novel Sinema: The Bollywood Bungle of Andy Duggal

The 360-page book is an insider’s take on Bollywood — India’s glittery cinema industry based out of Mumbai — without getting either too preachy or sycophantic about the industry where he has worked in excess of 30 years.

How to reject casual racism? SM Lee Hsien Loong tells Singapore youth ahead of National Day 2024

Upon witnessing an instance of casual racism, SM Lee said, “we have to express disapproval, and if it is done with ill intent, we have to be quite firm to come down and put it down”. At the same time, he advised, “we should not become hypersensitive”.

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