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INDIA AT CANNES 2022: RAMP-SHAMP! AIR KISSING AND ALL

It’s déjà vu time, one more time in the world’s most prestigious and revered film fest. Monojit Lahiri wonders why the world’s largest producer...

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Business and Politics

Justice Imprisoned

Humra Quraishi asks: Shahrukh Khan’s son, Aryan Khan, has been declared innocent and let off in the drugs-on-cruise case, but does the story end here?  No, it can&...

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Powerful People

SOHAILA KAPUR: The Person & Her Legacy!

Sohaila Kapur belongs to a very rooted and empowered artistic and cultural legacy. She has, in her individual way, made her own space, writes Aparajita Krishna She was born i...

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Thought Factory

BEGINNINGS

In a flashback interview, Aamir Khan talks to Khalid Mohamed about the pleasures and pains of acting.  If there’s one Khan from the presiding troika who has remain...

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Alternative Entertainment

A MOTHER’S SILENT AWAKENING

Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri looks at one of Jaya Bachchan’s most feted performances in a rare Hindi film, Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa that addresses the Naxal movement with authen...

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Business and Politics

RENAMING AND SHAMING!

Humra Quraishi discusses the weapons of mass ‘distractions’ being used, by the Right-Wing forces, to deflect people’s attention from the most grave issues th...

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Thought Factory

BEHIND THE STARDOM IS AN IGNORED ACTOR

True or False, asks Monojit Lahiri who’s in an investigative mood today! It was some insightful words tossed out casually by a film critic, whose opinion I value, that ...

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Powerful People

Back to the Future

  Film historian Dhruv Somani, in conversation with Sonu Walia, who had quit the Bollywood scene prematurely but is raring to face the lights and camera again. On the F...

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Powerful People

The Making of Amruta Subhash

Aparajita Krishna writes, “Amruta Subhash was cradled by very strong creative influences. Mother Jyoti Subhash (nee Deshpande), the very reputed alumni of the National S...

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Kaleidoscope

"Who Killed Judge Loya?” (Remember this is not fiction!)

The prologue itself is an unapologetic foray in Niranjan's state of mind, as he must have started penning down his story, writes Darshan Mondkar Niranjan Takle opens his book...

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THE RURAL BOY WHO BECAME A LITERARY ICON

Sohaila Kapur explores Mahesh Elkunchwar’s remarkable journey from rural Maharasht...

October 18 2026

PRAHAAR REVIEW: JUSTICE AND HEROISM

Prahaar examines Ujjwal Nikam’s role in landmark terror trials, championing due pr...

October 17 2026

BIRDS IN THE DARK REVIEW

A luminous tale of souls in search of light. Saibal Chatterjee’s review explores S...

October 16 2026