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Alternative Entertainment

Best Photographs of 2021

Khalid Mohamed, inspired by a selection of the award-winning photos from National Sony World Photography 2021 competition, writes on the significance and evolution of image-ma...

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Kaleidoscope

Gentleman Extraordinaire: Phani Majumdar

Rinki Roy Bhattacharya shares her experience of meeting Phani Majumdar, a filmmaker and man extraordinaire.  I have no recollection why I went to meet the ve...

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Thought Factory

Drishadvati: The daughter of Yayati

Read Janaky Sreedharan’s incisive view on Madhavi S Mahadevan’s Bride of the Forest Reshaping age-old Indian myths into delectable reading experiences has becom...

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TV

Paap: Antim Pawrbo and Mouchak

While Paap passes muster, Mouchak scrapes the bottom of the barrel. Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri writes. Two new web series from Hoichoi - a murder mystery (Paap: Antim Pawrbo) a...

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Alternative Entertainment

Whose normal is it anyway?

Vandana Kumar goes around John Cassavettes’ ‘A Woman Under the Influence’ and discusses how Independent Cinema in Hollywood pushed boundaries by depicting al...

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Movies

The Afterlife of Kudrat

Film historian Dhruv Somani, re-evaluates Chetan Anand’s take on reincarnation forty years later. This one’s a keeper. An alluring film, directed by Chetan Anan...

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Festivals

ONE WORLD: International Queer Film Festival

The festival organized by The Humsafar Trust will showcase the best of American queer films, reports The Daily Eye News Desk The inaugural edition of ONE WORLD International ...

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Business and Politics

Sign of the times: This is the darkest hour

Humra  Quraishi revisits her conversations with Saira Banu and Khushwant Singh, both of whom had predicted that the times to come, which are here, will be darker than the...

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Sustainable Development

How to tame COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

Damien de Walque, Lead Economist, Development Research Group, and Victor Orozco, Senior Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank, explore ways to reduce vaccine ...

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Bollywood

The Incredible Story of India’s First Miss India

Khalid Mohamed pays tribute to the first Miss India (1947), Esther Victoria Abraham, who became a popular actor, the nation’s first woman film producer and a lasting emb...

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THE QUIET FIRE OF BECOMING

In conversation with Omara Shetty—Vinta Nanda explores her journey from journalism...

April 24 2026

STUDENT CITY PART 1

A sharp, evocative campus romance unfolds in The Daily Eye’s Kaleidoscope section,...

April 23 2026

SUI GENERIS: TEDxNMIMS RETURNS

AI Creativity Debate Takes Centerstage: The annual independently organised TED event at ...

April 23 2026