India

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Singing, Dancing, Maiming, Killing…

This film has got the lot: Mahesh Bhatt (Murder, Kalyug) is introducing his 21-year-old son Rahul in the film industry and he has completed the power packed script of the film titled ‘Suicide Bomber’. The movie explores the mind-set and motivations of a would-be suicide …

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The 20th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival…

…kicks off at the end of the month with an Opening Night Gala screening of Happy Endings which we’ll be reviewing sometime ahead of the festival. It stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lisa Kudrow and Steve Coogan. If you enjoyed The Opposite of Sex, then we think …

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After The Wave Exhibition

As of today the National Theatre is hosting a free exhibition of giant photographs looking at the effects of the Asian tsunami and the efforts to rebuild the effected areas over the past year. Entitled After the Wave the exhibitoin features 58 photogrpahs taken by …

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Flying Food Festival

Airline food is hardly the stuff to get madly excited about – so far, the only acceptable time to be truly enthusiastic about the mysterious items sealed in plastic that is handed to you for “lunch” is when you’ve figured out what the pulpy orange …

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Diwali In The Square

This Sunday, India’s glammest festival: Diwali will be celebrated in Trafalgar Square. Diwali is celebrated on a grand scale in almost all the regions of India. Designed to celebrate the victory of good over evil, and “the glory of light over darkness”, the word Diwali …

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“Cursed” Diamond To Come To SW7

This is real Boy’s Own Adventure stuff. A black diamond, allegedly stolen from a Hindu temple and said to be cursed, is to go on display in the Natural History Museum. Three of its previous owners have committed suicide. Whether the stone will be accompanied …

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The Bigger They Come, The Longer They Stall

Where are all those tall buildings they promised us? Good question. We’re glad you asked it, because we’ve been wondering too. So we thought that it’s time for a round-up of who’s building what, when, and with whom. For comparison, London’s tallest building, 1 Canada …

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Top London Film Locations

Did you see the Top 20 Film Locations list that was put together by Film London last week? It was pretty rubbish. We know these kind of things are designed to provoke dicussion and argument, but one company counting up which of the locations on …

Jurassic Bark

The Wollemi Pine is to be reintroduced to Kew Gardens. This might not sound remarkable, but Wollemis were thought to have died out in the Jurassic era, 200 million years ago. This Coelecanth of among trees was rediscovered in a gorge in Australia in 1994. …

The Crowd as a Computer

Friday sees the launch of Algomantra 2005 – a 3-day collective experiment into urban research, social gaming and visual arts that Londonist will be taking part in. The Algomantra festival is the brainchild of Bombay based writer Rohit Gupta and while most of the action …