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Thought Factory

Gas-lighting: The News Normal

Vinta Nanda analyzes the news media as it stands today and what it can achieve for its mass audiences if it so chooses to do. The news, in layman terms, is the transfer of th...

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TV

So much hokum-pokum

Khalid Mohamed reviews the time-travel series JL 50, the documentary  Social Dilemma and more fare, streaming on channels currently.  Woe ho. There’s been so ...

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Business and Politics

Celebrity: Served With A Pinch Of Salt

Let’s read about what Dr Sandeep Goyal has to say, when asked how difficult are celebs really to deal with. Honestly, because there really is no straight answer to that...

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Kaleidoscope

Self Indulgence to Self Discovery

Bhooma Sundararajan writes, that boredom and inaction sets in when one has a lot of empty time in hand and no anchor in life to commit that time usefully.  I faced such ...

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Business and Politics

Verdict: Zero Tolerance to Drug Abuse

The Daily Eye Newsdesk reports that according to the latest IIHB survey, as high as 82% youngsters in the 18-30 year age cohort said drug abuse by a celebrity made them &lsquo...

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Kaleidoscope

Let the music play on…

Musicians and singers share their stories about how they’re coping during lockdown, with Monarose Sheila Pereira. No gigs, no events, no mehfils, no shows and no releas...

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No Man is an island

Rinki Roy Bhattacharya writes that the relentless media coverage about the pandemic we are all stuck in was guaranteed to turn the toughest into a couch potato, an escapi...

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Movies

Similar strokes

Call it a coincidence or plain copycatting. Film historian, Dhruv Somani, writes on the curious clashes between Bollywood filmmakers who have tackled the same subject or story...

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Kaleidoscope

She loved Cinema: Pamela Rooks

Humra Quraishi revisits the life and times of Pamela Rooks. And, her films, Miss Beatty’s Children and Train to Pakistan. I had  met  Pamela  Rooks sever...

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Movies

Sex, lies and web chats

Khalid Mohamed reviews the widely-lionised Malayalam film C U Soon, Yaara an exhibition of bare chests-‘n’-bespoke beards and more. Roses are red, violets are blu...

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WIFF MUMBAI TALKS CHANGING CINEMA

In the run-up to WIFF Mumbai 2026, The Daily Eye brings you the unmissable conversations...

July 24 2026

THIRTEEN DAYS WHEN HUMANITY HELD

At an intimate Mumbai screening of Martin Bourboulon’s 13 Days, 13 Nights, the fal...

July 24 2026

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