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Chitra Ramaswamy

Chitra Ramaswamy is a journalist and author based in Edinburgh

July 2024

  • Grace Dent with loads of cheese

    ‘It’s the best job! But it will kill you’: four restaurant critics on the battle to stay healthy

  • No game left behind … Joel Snape preps for the day.

    ‘I must have saved at least £100!’ Three writers try the no-spend challenge

May 2024

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    ‘I dreamed of being a brown Bob Dylan’: We Are Lady Parts creator Nida Manzoor on fear, fun and Malala

    Her wildly successful sitcom about a Muslim punk band is back, better than before – and features the Nobel laureate in a Stetson. This time round, the writer-director is more confident than ever

April 2024

  • Charm personified … actor Michael Sheen in The Assembly on BBC One.

    TV review
    The Assembly review – Michael Sheen is grilled by 35 neurodivergent young people … and it’s pure TV joy

    This interview format is a breath of fresh air: funny, endearing, novel – and the Welsh actor is charm personified. Expect tears, laughter and unexpected celebrity beatboxing

March 2024

  • Andi Oliver meets chef Ben Arthur in Porthtowan, Cornwall, in the first episode of Fabulous Feasts.

    TV review
    Andi Oliver’s Fabulous Feasts review – so hope-inducing it could restore your faith in Britain

    This joyous show sees the TV chef overflowing with warmth and knowledge as she tours the UK to throw genuinely cool parties for deserving Brits. It’s utterly heartwarming

February 2024

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    TV review
    Inseparable Sisters review – the almighty power of parental love will move you to tears

  • This one’s a keeper … Emma Morley (Ambika Mod) and Dexter Mayhew (Leo Woodall) in One Day.

    TV review
    One Day review – a flawless romcom you’ll fall for, hard

December 2023

  • Freddie Fox in A Ghost Story for Christmas

    TV review
    A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No 249 review – Mark Gatiss’s camp, creepy tale is absolutely bang on

    The Sherlock creator’s annual festive spookathon is predictably hammy and great. It’s a clever take on Arthur Conan Doyle’s mummy revenge story that’s as tight as a pair of Victorian breeches
  • ‘Utterly heartbreaking’ … Timothy Spall as Peter Farquhar in The Sixth Commandment

    2023 in TV
    The 50 best TV shows of 2023: No 9 – The Sixth Commandment

    This flawless drama sees Timothy Spall put in the best performance of his career. It is a masterclass in respectful true-crime TV that rewrites the rules of the entire genre
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    The zero-waste wardrobe: five writers try sustainable fashion fixes

    How can you lessen the climate impact of your clothes? Our writers spend a month selling, tailoring and mending to find out

November 2023

  • Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in The Great Climate Fight.

    TV review
    The Great Climate Fight review – Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall goes ‘not strictly legal’

    Kevin McCloud is undercover, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall does some flyposting and Mary Portas sends a Jilly Cooper book to the PM. This government-baiting show is impressively angry TV

October 2023

  • Top dollar cosplay … The Gilded Age returns for season two

    TV review
    The Gilded Age review – it takes some nerve to give Oscar Wilde a cameo … then grant him no good lines

    Though Julian Fellowes’ tale of New York aristos never fizzes as it should, you will still swallow it whole … even if it feels wrong with every fibre of your being

June 2023

  • Jaime Winstone and Arian Nik in Count Abdulla.

    TV review
    Count Abdulla review – the hour for Muslim vampires has cometh!

    This defiantly silly comedy about a junior doctor bitten by a vampire could be extremely dodgy. Instead, it’s deftly written, topical and very funny

May 2023

  • Faiza Shaheen, who has long, dark hair, in a head and shoulders shot, wears a pink coat with black lapels and yellow sleeves.

    The G2 interview
    ‘Social mobility is a fairytale’: Faiza Shaheen on fighting for Labour and hating Oxford

    When the UK finally goes to the polls, the British-Pakistani-Fijian daughter of a car mechanic could win the seat that Iain Duncan Smith has held for more than 30 years. Some would see that as proof that anyone can succeed – but not Shaheen
  • Busted’s Matt Willis

    TV review
    Matt Willis: Fighting Addiction review – the Busted bassist is frequently in tears

    This heartbreaking documentary looks at a decades-long battle with drugs and alcohol that’s torn the musician’s family apart. It’s a moving look at how it’s affected not just him, but his wife too
  • His hair does a lot of heavy lifting … Joshua Jackson as Dan Gallagher and Lizzy Caplan as Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction.

    TV review
    Fatal Attraction review – not as sexy as the original … and just as sexist

    No bunnies are boiled here, but this attempt to modernise the erotic classic is all tasteless jokes and lame flirting about meatballs. Sizzle it does not

April 2023

  • Daisy May Cooper in Rain Dogs

    TV review
    Rain Dogs review – no wonder Daisy May Cooper is being touted as the next M in Bond

    The actor is magnificent in this bleak, beautiful comedy drama – which skewers the grotesque realities of class and sex inequality like nothing else

March 2023

  • Ellie Violet Bramley tries taramasalata

    ‘You’ve never eaten a banana?!’ 10 writers face their fiercest – and strangest – food fears

    Whether it’s the smell, the texture or the emotional associations, something has kept our guinea pigs away from everyday dishes such as hard-boiled eggs and shepherd’s pie. How traumatic will those first mouthfuls be?
  • Angel Delight … but does it still delight?

    ‘Mmm, straight back to the 70s!’ Writers revisit the foods they loved as kids, from Smash to Angel Delight

    Arctic rolls are having a moment, with sales up more than 140% at Ocado. But which other retro delights deserve a comeback? We taste-test some old favourites
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    George Michael: Outed review – this will make you love him even more than you did as a screaming teen

    This documentary on the pop star’s arrest for a ‘lewd act’ shows an era so breathtakingly homophobic that the shaming of gay men was a blood sport – and his response to it was one of absolute grace
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