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Online-Offline: What works, what doesn’t?

Lecturers and students from various institutes talk to Monarose Sheila Pereira about their preferences. Colleges today conduct lectures in three different modes - on...

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Hollywood

OSCARS & INDIA – S – L – A – P!!

Not Will Smith and Chris Rock, but Oscars and our film industry, over years! Can the thappads ever turn to chummas, wonders Monojit Lahiri.  The Oscars really have becom...

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Movies

The Gone Girls

Film historian Dhruv Somani focuses on yesteryear’s gutsy Sheetal and Leena Das, who have vanished into a limbo today. They never quite made it to the A-list but they w...

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Business and Politics

Hindu Khatre Mein Hai

Humra Quraishi looks at how the many things that threaten India are not being addressed by the media, and the things that don’t matter are taking center stage instead. ...

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Thought Factory

RISHI KAPOOR: THE MEMORABLE SECOND COMING

As the last film starring the beloved star, Sharmaji Namkeen, gears up for release, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri looks at five films from his second phase that wowed criti...

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Bollywood

The Natural

Khalid Mohamed harks back to an interview with Jaya Bachchan on the art and craft of acting during her heyday under the helmsmanship of pre-eminent directors. She’s an ...

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Powerful People

Vijay Akela: Bol Rahe!

Aparajita Krishna discusses voice and lyrics with poet-lyricist Vijay Akela - a unique conversation about poetry, vocabulary and the art form of conveying emotion through...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Oscar Rosters 2022 - A Post Hoc Analysis

A detailed, spoiler free analysis of Oscar nominees and winners, with commendations on why some won, and regrets on why some didn’t, by Ronaan Roy Doing a quick statist...

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Thought Factory

Cinema: A Lifetime Impact

An Art form, a masterpiece., pretentious nonsense, a waste of time and a passion, writes Shourya Sinha, as he deconstructs what movies do you.   In our current day ...

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Hollywood

Remembering Hollywood’s Cleopatra!

A Timeless Movie Queen, Ageless Screen Legend, Matchless Star, writes Monojit Lahiri, on Elizabeth Taylor’s 88th Birth Anniversary on 27th February 2020, when paying tri...

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SARMAYA CELEBRATES PRADHAN GOND HERITAGE

Prof Dr Avinash Kolhe explores Sarmaya Arts Foundation's remarkable exhibition, Chola Ma...

June 29 2026

WELCOME LOST IN SATIRICAL CHAOS

Lost in the Wilderness of Its Own Making: Arnab Banerjee reviews Welcome to the Jungle, ...

June 28 2026

COCKTAIL 2 TESTS LOVE’S LIMITS

Arnab Banerjee examines Homi Adajania’s Cocktail 2, exploring fidelity, trust, tem...

June 27 2026