Suma
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Mancunian in London Fuelled by books, films, travel, art, chanchur/jhalmuri & coffee Views my own
Frustrating, touching and funny - just like life.
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#filmsky
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A ★★★½ review of Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2024)
Frustrating, funny and touching - just like life.
https://boxd.it/bhdWYF
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Sunday morning ✨
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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations
3 days ago
"When that struggle was going on, the focus was on European films, Hollywood, and national cinema in Australia. People weren’t paying much attention to Indian cinema."
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Indian Film
Professor Brian Shoesmith chooses five books that celebrate the lavish history of the Indian film industry. He maintains that Bollywood has become a global brand — in Perth, you can even take classes…
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/brian-shoesmith-on-indian-film/
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Surely this is the worst film TC has been in 🤨
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A review of The Mummy (2017)
I only have one question for Tom and Co - Why?
https://boxd.it/bgkOFF
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Putting off cleaning chores before sunset (one of the many Durga Puja traditions my family have), by watching questionable films.
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It had to be rewatched 🥹💔
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A ★★★★★ diary entry for The Way We Were (1973)
https://boxd.it/b9iQSf
14 days ago
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itvX has a sub category in its Film section called Christmas in September (Hallmark type films) 🤪🫠
15 days ago
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A timely rewatch …
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A ★★★★ diary entry for V for Vendetta (2005)
https://boxd.it/b7DZTv
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25 years of this beautiful film 🌹
letterboxd.com/journal/in-t...
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Flower-Like Years: the irresistible allure of Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
As Wong Kar-wai’s masterful study of desire In the Mood for Love turns 25, Xuanlin Tham looks back on the film’s peerless impact on the way we understand romance altogether.
https://letterboxd.com/journal/in-the-mood-for-love-wong-kar-wai-retrospective/
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"I choose you of my own free will. If there are infinite worlds, every version of me chooses you in every one of them" - The Summer I Turned Pretty Yes, I am a hopeless romantic.
19 days ago
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The Way We Were (1973) Kate and Hubble
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A Chance Meeting | The Way We Were | Love Love
YouTube video by Love Love
https://youtu.be/IQheWL99XEE?si=2qmmE-39fNBZ8ex4
20 days ago
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My timeline is all about Robert Redford - perfection
20 days ago
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Robert Redford 😢
21 days ago
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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For some minority Britons the ‘unite the kingdom’ rally shows far-right politics is becoming legitimised
Westminster’s hardening attitudes to immigration are leading anti-racist campaigners to warn a far-right UK government no longer seems unthinkable
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/16/for-some-minority-britons-the-unite-the-kingdom-rally-shows-far-right-politics-is-becoming-legitimised
21 days ago
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Isokon Building, Hampstead - OpenHouse, 2025 You were missed
@gisforguero.bsky.social
23 days ago
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Current read: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
#Booksky
26 days ago
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Films to watch in Autumn 🍁🍂👻🕯️
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#filmsky
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Films to watch in Autumn 🍁🍂
A list of 30 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Crimson Peak (2015), Mystic Pizza (1988), When Harry Met Sally... (1989), St. Elmo's Fire (1985) and Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009).
https://boxd.it/OB7FA
28 days ago
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It’s that time of the week …
#LetterboxdFriday
#LastFourWatched
#filmsky
#desiwatch
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Pure escapism 📺☀️⛱️😎
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Why we’ve all fallen for The Summer I Turned Pretty: ‘Endless, wonderful melodrama’
The third season of the Amazon teen drama has become a certified phenomenon, encouraging watch parties and intense fan reactions
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/aug/31/the-summer-i-turned-pretty-amazon-fans
about 1 month ago
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Saajan (1991) The summer I watched (rewatched in some cases) films about two brothers in love with the same girl.
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#desiwatch
#filmsky
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A ★★★½ review of Saajan (1991)
The summer I watched (rewatched in some cases) films about two brothers in love with the same girl.
https://boxd.it/aVei4r
about 1 month ago
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#booksky
about 1 month ago
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“Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.” Caesar in Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 2
#ShakespeareSunday
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Yep
www.elle.com/culture/movi...
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Why Every Woman You Know Is Obsessed With 'The Summer I Turned Pretty'
Despite its YA roots, messy love triangle, and exploration of young love, adult fans can’t get enough of the TV sensation.
https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a65640334/why-adult-women-love-the-summer-i-turned-pretty/
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The 20 books they didnt want you to read!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
#Booksky
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Banned! The 20 books they didn’t want you to read
From Instagram poetry to Greek classics, the works of fiction that have caused uproar through history – and into the present
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/23/banned-the-20-books-they-didnt-want-you-to-read
about 1 month ago
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Them: “What are you thinking about?” Me: “Team Bonrad.”
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
Claudia Jones, founder of the
#NottingHillCarnival
celebrating Black British community, music and culture. Claudia was a human rights activist from Trinidad who came to the UK as part of the Windrush generation in the 1950s
#WomensArt
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Tottenham Court Road, London. 2025
about 2 months ago
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This is not a rom-com.
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#Filmsky
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A ★★★ review of Materialists (2025)
This is not a rom-com.
https://boxd.it/aJWpzV
about 2 months ago
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Some books to celebrate South Asian Heritage Month and Indian Independence Day 2025
#Booksky
about 2 months ago
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It’s that time of the week …
#LetterboxdFriday
#LastFourWatched
#filmsky
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about 2 months ago
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Meal deal Friday
about 2 months ago
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From the topdeck 🚍
about 2 months ago
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August, London (2025)
2 months ago
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Belated July wrap up
#Booksky
2 months ago
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“The tempter or the tempted, who sins most, ha.” Measure for Measure - Act 2, scene 2
#ShakespeareSunday
#MeasureforMeasure
2 months ago
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When Envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion. Henry VI - Act 4, Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday
2 months ago
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New read: Death in the Air by Ram Murali
#Booksky
2 months ago
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Runnymede Trust
2 months ago
Our government and media are complicit in enabling racist violence, our latest report shows. One year since the racist riots broke out across the UK, violence which has continued since, those in power cannot continue to deny their enabling role. Read the report here 👉
www.runnymedetrust.o...
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A hostile environment: language, race, surveillance and the media
A hostile environment: language, race, surveillance and the media is the second of two reports analysing parliamentary and media debates from 2010-2024, and shows how large sections of these debates encouraged widespread hostility to migrants.
https://www.runnymedetrust.org/publications/a-hostile-environment-language-race-surveillance-and-the-media
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It’s
#LetterboxdFriday
and here’s my
#LastFourWatched
- a mix bag with no desi films.
#filmsky
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2 months ago
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No meal deal Friday, but an Amba bowl Friday 🐓🍲
2 months ago
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Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck This is a story about the highly intense and emotional love affair between a young woman and an older man in East Berlin. I made myself finish it, which is not a good sign. It was all a bit too much for me; in a slow and painful way.
#Booksky
2 months ago
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Thank you
@vikingbooksuk.bsky.social
for an advanced copy of Kiran Desai's new novel The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny to be released in September and it’s on the just announced 2025
@thebookerprizes.com
long list.  Looking forward to reading this soon.
#Booksky
2 months ago
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Finally started Supernatural (2005) … I know.
2 months ago
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Today is my Monday
2 months ago
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Hanumankind
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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‘They’re rowdy. They’re vibing. I rip my shirt off’: the exploding career of Hanumankind, India’s hottest rapper
He’s a thrilling performer who rails against injustice and ‘mob mentality’ in his homeland – but is he burning himself out? Recovering from an onstage injury, he discusses stereotypes and subversion
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/28/theyre-rowdy-theyre-vibing-i-rip-my-shirt-off-the-exploding-career-of-hanumankind-indias-hottest-rapper
2 months ago
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Happy
#LetterboxdFriday
#LastFourWatched
Added a sneaky tv show in this week’s last four watched, which was my kind of MCU show.
#filmsky
#desiwatch
2 months ago
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I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman This short sci-fi book explores themes of loneliness, deprivation in all senses and survival. It's left me feeling quite eerie afterwards.
#Booksky
3 months ago
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Anita Chaudhuri
3 months ago
Amazing series by Sujata Setia, a winner of the Wellcome Photography Prize. Her portraits are embellished with a traditional Indian paper cutting technique and explore the impact of domestic abuse.
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Big Issue
3 months ago
Black and minority families face structural racism meaning they are half as likely to get a social home than white households, a study shows.
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Black households 'forced to disguise their identities' to get social housing
https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/social-housing-racism-homelessness-heriot-watt/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1753076671
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Ian Duhig
3 months ago
Wordsworth and Coleridge at the Coldplay gig
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