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Hanging With The Girl-Kings Of One Of The World’s Only Matriarchies

Mawlynnong isn’t like the rest of India, or the rest of the world for that matter. Tucked into the jungle of the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya, on the border of...

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Kaleidoscope

Her Name Was Gauhar

There is little documentation about India’s great performing artistes and even less about the women.

The tawaifs, despite their talent and refinement had the ...

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Thought Factory

In August's Company

This columnist may have missed out on the action for August but what a month it's been! We opened our column with Drishyam, which found remake in several Southern languages...

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Retroscope

Retroscope - Unsung Talents

It was the day they got married, remembers Mrs Salil Chowdhury, chuckling to herself, when the letter arrived inviting Chowdhury to Bombay. The particular letter that was t...

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Festivals

6th Jagran Film Festival Extends Lifetime Achievement Award To Shashi Kapoor, Best Actor To Dulal Sarkar And Best Actress To Bhumi Pednekar At The Starry Festival Closing Night

~ Veteran make-up artiste Pandhari Juker honoured with Outstanding Contribution to Indian Cinema title ~

~ Dulal Sarkar and the film ‘Chotoder Ch...

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Hollywood

Blunt Reveals Why Hollywood Needs More Female Action Stars

Since Emily Blunt showed she could pull off a badass female warrior in Edge of Tomorrow, Hollywood has started to see her in a different light. Blunt has done it all, from ...

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Thought Factory

Apathy, Waste And The Rhetoric Of Concern

Rafi Nagar, Deonar, Mumbai
April 2012

The auto-rickshaw stopped at the corner of the narrow road. A large mound of garbag...

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Festivals

Venice Film Festival Offers a Chance to Watch Suffering, Then to Quaff Champagne

“The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context.” So wrote Mary McCarthy in her charming, philosophical tra...

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Hollywood

Invisible Women? Hollywood’s Female Superhero Problem

The list of male superheroes starring in their own big-screen escapades is bigger than Tony Stark’s ego, and the billions of dollars these films have generated rival ...

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Movies

True Review Movie - Fantastic Four

Critics rating: 1.5 Stars

Cast: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, ...

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