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With the Ciri-focused Witcher 4 on the horizon, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt gets a giant update to ready a whole new generation for its bridging DLC Songs of the Past
Arts & Culture · The Hindu · Entertainment ·
There is ‘Mach’ to love in Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, with explosive dogfights and gloriously over-the-top military melodrama that is all aces
Arts & Culture · The Hindu · Entertainment ·
A new essay collection on African writers and artificial intelligence is taking shape, and a first look at its roster is now available. Titled Promptings: African Literature in the AI Conjuncture, the volume is being edited by James Yékú, Associate Professor of African Digital Humanities at the…
Arts & Culture · Brittle Paper · Latest ·
His monumental installations excavate Ghana's past and build firm foundations for the country’s artistic future. Ibrahim Mahama has represented his country at the Venice Biennale and established three cultural hubs in northern Ghana, nurturing creative communities for generations to come.
Arts & Culture · France 24 · Culture ·
Weverse Con Festival India will feature a mix of popular K-pop groups and international artistes who will perform in New Delhi on March 27 and 28 2027. Here are the details
Arts & Culture · The Hindu · Entertainment ·
The belly of the beast makes for a palpably real purgatory in this claustrophobic survival thriller, one that is also about forgiveness and letting go
Arts & Culture · The Hindu · Entertainment ·
A salacious, plot-starved brawl of horny meatheads and ‘90s mall-arcade nostalgia, ‘Street Fighter’ is far too stupid for its own good, yet far too entertaining to dismiss
Arts & Culture · The Hindu · Entertainment ·
Directed by Balaji Mohan, the film loses shape of its identity as it descends into mythology, acting often like an overdramatic TV soap
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The idea, according to Telangana CM, is to keep people informed about the possible impact of El Nino on a regular basis rather than wait until shortages become acute
Arts & Culture · The Hindu · Entertainment ·
Seo Kangjun and Ahn Eun-jin open up about ‘A Love Other Than Yours’, the K-Drama exploring the messy realities of a decade-long relationship, emotional conflict, and complicated love
Arts & Culture · The Hindu · Entertainment ·
Designed as a large-scale international festival with world-class production, the inaugural edition will unfold across multiple stages on March 20, 2027
Arts & Culture · The Hindu · Entertainment ·
Time flies, empires crumble, theatres vanish, and love wanes: these are eternal truths. But when Albert and Baby Albert turned deathly quiet amid a Rajini film release, it marked a shift in the celluloid history of Madras
Arts & Culture · The Hindu · Entertainment ·
With ‘Sacrifice’, Romain Gavras finds himself replicating a self-deprecating genre that Hollywood has found itself quite obsessed with lately, but doesn’t quite deliver a satisfying product
Arts & Culture · The Hindu · Entertainment ·
Fashion can absolutely be political, when it shapes identities and questions the balance of power. With his label Maxhosa Africa, South Africa's Laduma Ngxokolo is determined to put the continent in the spotlight.
Arts & Culture · France 24 · Culture ·
For its 15th anniversary, Forbes Africa has unveiled its first Icons list, a group of 15 individuals the magazine says have shaped Africa’s past, present, and future. The list is presented in no particular order and mostly leans toward business, politics, sport, and entertainment.
Arts & Culture · Brittle Paper · Latest ·
This poem has been previously published in German and translated into English by Literatur und Kritik Nr. 607/608, September 2026, Otto Müller Verlag Salzburg I walked the earth so you could feel its stomach rumble, witness the collapse of dead stars at sea.
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To train artificial intelligence models, millions of physical books are being digitised and destroyed. Our colleagues at France 2 investigate this controversial practice and the risk of seeing many rare second-hand books disappear forever.
Arts & Culture · France 24 · Culture ·
The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn is hosting an in-person reading group on West African literature, “West African Literature: Secrets, the Surreal, and the Sea,” led by writer and artist Magenta Naaku.
Arts & Culture · Brittle Paper · Latest ·
Dorothy places a trans woman’s desire, identity, and capacity for love at the centre of a romance, challenging decades of stereotypical representation of transgender persons in Tamil cinema.
Arts & Culture · Frontline · Arts & Culture ·
Neera Chandhoke reads Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Sahir Ludhianvi and Bimal Roy as political thinkers, finding in their poetry and cinema a view of freedom as a horizon that we must continuously fight to reimagine.
Arts & Culture · Frontline · Arts & Culture ·
Amit Chaudhuri’s new novel set in an alternative Paris, Ramachandra Guha’s exploration of the complex relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and B.R. Ambedkar, and much more ...
Arts & Culture · Frontline · Arts & Culture ·
The multicrore development projects in Varanasi have changed its character, triggering an identity crisis among its citizens.
Arts & Culture · Frontline · Arts & Culture ·
Patekar created a distinctive screen presence by turning ordinary men’s flaws, anger, frustrations and vulnerabilities into an alternative to Bollywood’s idealised hero. His performances were shaped by the social and political tensions of their time.
Arts & Culture · Frontline · Arts & Culture ·
In Digger, Alejandro González Iñárritu makes a fragile, unlikeable climate change satire, then we find it’s a satire of that satire. But can we also make satire rooted in hope?
Arts & Culture · Frontline · Arts & Culture ·