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Thought Factory

INDIA AT CANNES 2022: RAMP-SHAMP! AIR KISSING AND ALL

It’s déjà vu time, one more time in the world’s most prestigious and revered film fest. Monojit Lahiri wonders why the world’s largest producer...

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Business and Politics

Justice Imprisoned

Humra Quraishi asks: Shahrukh Khan’s son, Aryan Khan, has been declared innocent and let off in the drugs-on-cruise case, but does the story end here?  No, it can&...

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Bollywood

Touch of Class

As Dimple Kapadia’s birthday approaches on June 8, film historian Dhruv Somani tracks how she has made strong fashion statements over the decades. Her beautiful eyes an...

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Powerful People

SOHAILA KAPUR: The Person & Her Legacy!

Sohaila Kapur belongs to a very rooted and empowered artistic and cultural legacy. She has, in her individual way, made her own space, writes Aparajita Krishna She was born i...

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Thought Factory

BEGINNINGS

In a flashback interview, Aamir Khan talks to Khalid Mohamed about the pleasures and pains of acting.  If there’s one Khan from the presiding troika who has remain...

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Trending

Odes to Pandit Shivkumar Sharma

Santoor maestro, Pandit Shivkumar Sharma recently passed away. Senior musicians speak to Monarose Sheila Pereira to pay their tributes to Panditji. Pandit Satish Vy...

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Alternative Entertainment

A MOTHER’S SILENT AWAKENING

Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri looks at one of Jaya Bachchan’s most feted performances in a rare Hindi film, Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa that addresses the Naxal movement with authen...

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Festivals

Divya Dutta & Arunaraje Patil Announce KASHISH

The 13th edition of KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival was announced by National Award winning actress Divya Dutta, National Award winning director Arunaraje Pat...

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Business and Politics

RENAMING AND SHAMING!

Humra Quraishi discusses the weapons of mass ‘distractions’ being used, by the Right-Wing forces, to deflect people’s attention from the most grave issues th...

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Festivals

Dazzling Array Of Indian LGBTQ+ Films at KASHISH

30 Indian LGBTQ+ films to be screened at Liberty Cinema from June 1-5, 2022, reports The Daily Eye Newsdesk  KASHISH 2022, South Asia’s biggest LGBTQ+ film festiva...

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OF WOMEN, BY WOMEN….TWO BOOK REVIEWS

Sohaila Kapur reviews Avni Doshi’s First House and Andaleeb Wajid’s Have You...

September 27 2026

HAS BOLLYWOOD FORGOTTEN SCREEN LOVE

Today, with crime nationalism, and action calling the shots has love vanished from the s...

September 26 2026

EK LAMHA ZINDAGI: LOVE BEYOND BORDERS Juhi Babbar

Soni delivers a remarkable solo performance in Ek Lamha Zindagi, directed by Makrand Des...

September 25 2026