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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...
Read MoreIn 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...
Read MoreRetroscope - 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...
Read MoreCrime 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 ...
Read MoreInitiating 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...
Read MoreAversion 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 ...
Read More7/7/07: 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, ...
Read MoreRetroscope - 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...
Read MoreBond Forever
As the latest James Bond film, Spectre become a global hit, and rakes 31.9 crores on opening weekend in India, despite the ‘kiss’ controversy, the one criticism by...
Read MoreRetroscope - A Veritable Carnival
The 19th edition of CFSI’s festival turned out to be a veritable carnival, a feast of colourful sights and sounds.Had I not gone, I would have missed the robust experien...
Read MoreEMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE HUMAN FACTOR
Writer Ranjan Das Gupta reflects on emotional intelligence as a human, ethical and socia...
March 6 2026A LAST CALL FOR THE PLANET
In this in-depth conversation with Vinta Nanda, Fr. Kureethadam Joshtrom reflects on eco...
March 5 2026FORGOTTEN DANCING QUEEN OF HINDI CINEMA
The Last Dance: Tragedy of a Dancing Queen - Khalid Mohamed narrates the rise and fall o...
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