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While discussing The RoyalsAbhinandan: You’re saying Bhumi Pednekar is good in this? Is she the redeeming factor?Rajyasree: No, she's horrible in this…But it has worked in her favour because everyone has logged on and watched the show. Abhinandan: Why?Rajyasree: Because it’s so bad. Everyone trashed it so everyone logged on and…

In a special episode for Press Freedom Day, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by historian and author Ramachandra Guha. The panel begins with a discussion on the history of press freedom in India. Ram reflects on the similarities and differences between 1975’s Emergency…

The knives are out and then some in "Full River Red," a murkily entertaining exercise in twist-twist-stab-stab from the Chinese director Zhang Yimou. Set over a long, dark and increasingly bloody night at a Song Dynasty military fortress, this 12th-century comic mystery opens with a touch of "Macbeth" — a…

How Ronstadt's plaintive song from the '70s resonates with the singer and on HBO's post-apocalyptic series

Before a miraculous recovery from cancer made him more famous than ever, the Dr Feelgood guitarist fired up 70s rock with proto-punk playing and divisive songwriting

Bob Dylan doesn't think much of the current state of songwriting or of contemporary pop music, two points underscored in his sometimes dizzying, sometimes confounding, but rarely less than absorbing new book, "The Philosophy of Modern Song." But he does think polygamist marriages are greatly underrated, about which more in…

Poet and songwriter Bill Hawkins rubbed elbows with Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, and other stars. Why didn’t he become one himself?

This first solo stadium show from the ex-One Direction star is a delight, thanks to his catalogue of great songs – and megawatt charisma

Shanghai authorities were tightening the city-wide COVID lockdown they imposed more than a month ago, prolonging into late May an ordeal that China's capital Beijing was desperate to avoid by turning mass testing into an almost daily routine.