Thought Box

The Favourite Songs of 2018

Around 50 Guardian music writers have picked their favourite songs of the year from UK drill breakthroughs to pure pop anthems and enclosed them all on Spotify and Apple Music...

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Bring On The Girls

Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl was a publishing sensation and made legit the dysfunctional ‘girl’. Paula Hawkins’s debut novel, The Girl On The Train zoome...

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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 added disa...

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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 an...

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Retroscope - The Healing Touch

The following is no filmy story. But it has the possibility of inspiring a Raju Hirani or a Vidhu Vinod Chopra with a central character who is as delightful as Munnabhai and a...

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Crime And Punishment

The film Drishyam (in its many versions), raised curiosity about the Japanese book that inspired it. The bestselling Japanese novel is also reportedly being made into another ...

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Initiating A Dialogue Toward Inclusive Identities

“When was the first time you realised that you were a boy or a girl?” This was one of the initial questions asked to ten year olds by the facilitators of gender ed...

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Aversion To Androgyny

Man’s contempt for that which he cannot understand is well documented throughout recorded history. Witch hunts, crusades, holy wars, inquisitions, imperialism and civil ...

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7/7/07: Heart Of Darkness

Reyhaneh Jabbari was just nineteen when she was arrested for the murder of a man who tried to rape her. After six years of torture and torment she was hanged in October 2014, ...

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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 to c...

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POLITICS: A NATION AT CROSSROADS AND APATHY

India stands at a crossroads, grappling with economic disparity, political polarization,...

November 24 2024

GENDER: HOW PATRIARCHY SILENCES RESISTANCE

Patriarchy persists by co-opting privileged voices, masking systemic exploitation in ind...

November 23 2024

KALEIDOSCOPE: BRIDGING THE SACRED AND THE ARTISTIC

A spiritual and artistic celebration that brings the divine essence of Varanasi’s ...

November 22 2024