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Grusha Kapoor on her Acts!
Aparajita Krishna walks down the road of actor Grusha Kapoor’s life, and career, which started at the young age of 15. Grusha Kapoor is a child of theatre and one who h...
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Humra Quraishi remembers what Zakia Jafry had once said to give context to the violence spreading across India today and why there is silence surrounding it. A country withou...
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My first exposure to the ‘French New Wave’, La Nouvelle Vague, was through Claude Chabrol’s Violette Nozière (1978). My admiration of the director gre...
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The government is mulling over revamping Sabarmati Ashram; people from various walks of life talk to Monarose Sheila Pereira about their views on the same. L...
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Monojit Lahiri records the hilarious lamentations of a World Cup Widow, just married, with the hubby clean bowled by the Dadima of all cricket tournaments! Akash really pursu...
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National Award-winning Balaji Vittal speaks to Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri on his new book, Pure Evil: The Bad Men of Bollywood Imagine Star Wars without Darth Vader - or Harry Po...
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Let us not be in any illusion. Being complacent basis the belief that there’s any sensitivity left in the discourse would be wrong, writes Humra Quraishi Half truths do...
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In the last few years, which were bedevilled with ambivalence, ambiguity and plain misunderstandings, statements of people in power or celebrities were deliberately distorted ...
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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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