When the Kesharwanis decided to branch out and expand their family home, they came up with a novel way of dealing with an ancient giant fig tree in their garden — they built the house around it. Now the thick trunk of the 150-year-old tree is the central feature of their residence, growing through the […]
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‘Catch-22’ miniseries is better than the novel
Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel Catch-22 is one of the greatest anti-war satires ever written. With their six-part Hulu miniseries adaptation, George Clooney and Grant Heslov have nailed the anti-war part. The satire? Well, that is the catch. George Clooney and Grant Heslov executive-produced this new version, with each directing a pair of episodes from scripts […]