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BOOK REVIEW: LATITUDES OF LONGING by SHUBHANGI SWARUP

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GET LOST IN THE VERSE OF THIS MAGNUM OPUS! A HIMALAYAN DEBUT! BOOK: Latitudes of Longing AUTHOR: Subhangi Swarup PUBLISHER: Harper Collins RELEASE DATE: 31/7/2018 Blurb: SHORTLISTED for 'The JCB PRIZE for Literature 2018' LONGLISTED for 'DSC PRIZE 2019' An astounding exploration of intense longings, Shubhangi Swarup's novel begins in the depths of the Andaman Sea, and follows geological and emotional faultlines through the Irrawaddy delta and the tourist-trap of Thamel, to end amidst the highest glaciers and passes of the Karakorams. The story sweeps through worlds and times that are inhabited by: a scientist who studies trees and a clairvoyant who talks to them; Lord Goodenough who travels around the furthest reaches of the Raj, giving names to nameless places; a geologist working towards ending futile wars over a glacier; octogenarian lovers; a superstitious dictator and a mother struggling to get her revolutionary son released; a yeti who

MOVIE REVIEW: THE VANISHING(2019)

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STORY OF THE TRANSITION OF HUMAN MIND OUT OF GREED & A FINE MELANCHOLIC PIECE OF ART Movie: The Vanishing Release Date: 4th January,2019 Director: Kristoffer Nyholm Writer: Celyn Jones &  Joe Bone Cast: Gerard Butler,  Peter Mullan, Connor Swindells etc. Music: Benjamin Wallfisch REVIEW:              "Three men alive on Flannan Isle,               Who thought, on three men dead."                                      -Wilfrid Wilson Gibson                                                        Flannan Isle Based on century old true story of 'Flannan Isle Mystery', THE VANISHING is a psychological mystery thriller. A take on much discussed incident - three keepers gone missing from Flannan Lighthouse in 1900. This is the first film inspired by that event. As the event was fully mysterious, you may think the filmmakers made a solution! But it's not like that, instead of showing a fictional mystery solution, they just showed the flow of even