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Pubali Chaudhuri: Mystery of the blank page!
Aparajita Krishna tells the Genie to grant writer Pubali Chaudhuri her personal wish; also the wish that she ‘continues to learn from the mystery of the blank page&...
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Film historian Dhruv Somani revisits Jaani Dushman the 1979 multi-starrer blockbuster of Raj Kumar Kohli, which is a major draw even today in the rural sector, the streaming c...
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Humra Quraishi talks about the senselessness of war and its impact on the lives of helpless people – she questions the politics that makes ordinary people suffer so much...
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Khalid Mohamed interviews Saba Azad, the multi-faceted actor, dancer, theatre director, singer who made an impact with the series Rocket Boys, performs at rock gigs with her e...
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A critical analysis of Rima Das’s Bulbul Can Sing (2018) by Dipankar Sarkar. With her third outing, Rima Das has honed a lyrical, realistic cinematic idiom that conside...
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Teesta Bhandare explores the art of Raza through the lens of the global avant garde. On February 22, 1922, in a sleepy forest town in Madhya Pradesh an infant by the name of ...
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A new Bengali film explores the relationship between five school friends who come together after twenty years. Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri writes about the nostalgia of meeting old...
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Monojit Lahiri investigates how deep is deep in extra-marital journeys, in reel and real life. As Shakun Batra’s promos blitzed the box, followed by breathless bytes, q...
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Film historian Dhruv Somani, writes a comprehensive account of the disco monarch, the late Bappi Lahiri. The oomph is his music was unmistakable. Aparesh Lahiri fondly addres...
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Humra Quraishi asks us how we can participate in assemblies of pleasure and write dreamy love songs, in this atmosphere of violence and hate. Just before the year...
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Monojit Lahiri examines whether acting is truly a form of lying, tracing the provocative...
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The 65th edition of Maharashtra State Drama Competition by Prof Dr Avinash Kolhe examine...
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Epic Spectacle, Elusive Soul: Why the New Ramayana Needs More Heart. Piyush Roy examines...
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