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THOUGHT FACTORY: LISTENING IS THE NEW LOOKING

For years, we were trained to look, writes Vinta Nanda. Now, we are learning to listen—attentively, and without interruption—as India’s growing podcast cultu...

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THOUGHT FACTORY: PREGNANT RECALLS!

Writer Aparajita Krishna weaves memory, cinema, politics, motherhood and moral courage into interlinked recalls, moving from Shyam Benegal’s Yatra to Badhaai Ho, and liv...

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TRENDING: AFTER ZUBEEN, A CULTURE REORGANISES ITSELF

Utpal Datta reflects on Assamese culture after Zubeen Garg, tracing legacy, rupture, and renewal across music, cinema, and stage, asking not who replaces him, but how creativi...

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BUSINESS: KOHLI KE PEECHE KYA HAI??

A hymned and celebrated superstar in every cricket playing nation on planet earth, this guy keeps challenging every former/ existing great to discover new superlatives to desc...

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HOLLYWOOD: DESTINIES AND CULTURAL IDENTITIES

A reflective meditation on love, migration, memory, and cultural identity, this deeply personal reading of Past Lives (2023) by Vandana Kumar explores destiny, longing, and th...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: BÉLA TARR, I STRUGGLE TO NEGOTIATE

In this personal tribute by Sharad Raj, the author reflects on Béla Tarr’s cinematic legacy, his mastery of time and long take aesthetics, and how his fearless ar...

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FESTIVALS: A JOURNEY FROM ARGENTINA TO INDIA

Art often travels before we do, crossing landscapes, languages and lived experiences, forming bridges where maps would show oceans — this exhibition becomes a poetic mee...

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POWERFUL PEOPLE: THOSE BASIC VISUAL INSTINCTS

Ravi K. Chandran, among the A-list of superstar technicians of Hindi and south Indian language cinema, has excelled in his metier for 35 years. Usually a man of few words, he ...

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BOLLYWOOD: TRIUMPH THAT OUTLIVES THE WAR

A reflective, humanist reading of Sriram Raghavan’s Ikkis, Arnab Banerjee examines war beyond valor, locating memory, grief, and shared humanity in a film that resists s...

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TELEVISION: HOW I MET SATYAM, TRULY

A moving, intimate remembrance by Sharad Raj of writer Satyam Tripathi—his brilliance, arrogance, tenderness, creative agony, artistic integrity, and friendship—se...

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CANNES 2026 REVIEW: ELEPHANTS IN THE FOG

CANNES 2026 REVIEW: ELEPHANTS IN THE FOG The Elephant in the Room – and Beyond: S...

May 23 2026

KASHISH 2026 OPENS WITH JIMPA

At the 17th edition of KASHISH Pride Film Festival in Mumbai, the Norwegian film JIMPA, ...

May 22 2026

STUDENT CITY PART 5

In Prof Dr Piyush Roy’s Student City Part 5, a volatile night at a Pune B-School d...

May 21 2026