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Bollywood

Shakespeare in Bollywood

Shakespeare travels, writes Farrukh Dhondy, in his piece on how well and how not so well the bard’s writing has been adapted in Indian sub continent. The appeals of the...

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Festivals

Creative Children

KidzCINEMA held a Children's film festival recently, which included films made by children, reports The Daily Eye Newsdesk. With the festival’s theme 'stories of posit...

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Movies

Sardar Udham: The Shadow Man

Satyabrata Ghosh explains why the film Sardar Udham should be watched to fathom what undying love for one’s own country truly embodies. Chronicling the emergence of lea...

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Bollywood

What Bollywood can learn from Hollywood

Monojit Lahiri does a hard close-up at the changing attitudes of Hollywood stars toward Indie films and proposes that Bollywood stars, too, should find the courage to do the s...

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Gender

Evening Shadows wins at Yatha Katha film festival

Sridhar Rangayan’s Gulabi Aaina and Evening Shadows to screen at Hyderabad Queer Film Festival Sridhar Rangayan’s feature film Evening Shadows continues its winni...

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Festivals

A SLICE OF BENGAL IN TELANGANA

The recently concluded 4th edition of the Telangana Bengali Film Festival brought to the limelight exciting new talent. Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri writes about how the festival ha...

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Business and Politics

Double standards… all the way!

Humra Quraishi goes over the many events of recent past in which it is getting clearer by the day that the discrimination against minorities in India has been internalised to ...

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Alternative Entertainment

A Faust for Bangladesh

Farrukh Dhondy at his best as he recounts the attempt he once made to adapt Goethe’s Faust for the Bangladeshi screen. Having worked with British Bangladeshi theatre di...

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Thought Factory

All about Eve: A History of the Hindi Film Heroine

All about Eve: A History of the Hindi Film HeroineThe more things change, the more they remain the same when it comes to the portrayal of women in Hindi cinema. Shantanu Ray C...

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Memories of an advertising man…

In this fascinating first-person-account, Monojit Lahiri, known for his Bollywood-driven opinion pieces, tracks the changing contours of India’s ‘adscape’ ov...

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PHULE'S THIRD EYE RECLAIMS RELEVANCE

The Third Eye, Opens Again: Phule's Forgotten Play Speaks Powerfully to Our Times. The d...

July 23 2026

LEADERSHIP WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE GENDERED

Sushmita Chowdhary examines the enduring barriers women face in leadership, connecting I...

July 23 2026

FILM CRITICS SHAPE INDIAN CINEMA

Film Critics And Indian Cinema…Perfectly-Unmatched!? India, the world’s lar...

July 22 2026