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Human Rights

Signs of the times: Anthems of Resistance

Humra Quraishi questions the idea of human rights in times when basic things like food security are a distant possibility.  On this Human Rights Day, the 10th of Decembe...

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TV

Blow hot, blow Coolie

Khalid Mohamed sneaks a peek at the trailer of Coolie No. 1… and finds mega-relief in Darbaan and Mank. For better or worse, David Dhawan sir’s 45th alleged la...

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Gender

The World Bank: Raising the bar on preventing GBV

Gender-based violence (GBV), including sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (SEA-SH), is an unacceptable violation of human values. The impacts of these actions on surviv...

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Trending

Is Conscious AI & Smart Robots Possible?

Even the most advanced Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have no real understanding of what they are really doing, writes Dr. Anurag Yadav Web Searches, Google Translate,...

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Business and Politics

The Storm In A Teacup

Dr. Sandeep Goyal puts down his thoughts on the recent developments in the F&B industry after FSSAI's 'Eat Right India' campaign angered The Coffee and Tea boards in the c...

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Alternative Entertainment

Missing Soumitrababu

The 1950’s down 70’s are often considered as the ‘Golden Era’ of Bengali Cinema, reminisces Rwita Dutta and she recalls those times through the cinema ...

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Thought Factory

Let’s Go to the Pictures

Rumi Taraporevala writes on the ‘masti-majaa’ of watching the movies with his buddies Right from the silent era and the early talkies to Hollywood’s blockbu...

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Kaleidoscope

Where Time Stands Still

Novelist and writer, Adithi Rao, pens a tribute to the famed Mount Carmel College of Bangalore, alma mater to Margaret Alva, Deepika Padukone, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Nirupama Ra...

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Movies

Hard Day’s Night

Film historian Dhruv Somani, clocks into Bollywood films, which were set in a tension-packed time frame of 24 hours. There have been rare films whose plots have been set in a...

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Alternative Entertainment

Seijun Suzuki: Master of the Japanese Film Noir

The most traveled and hence the most influential of the film genres that evolved in Hollywood film studios is perhaps the film noir, writes Monish Das  The low‐budget,...

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INTIMACY & TECHNOLOGY – FRENEMIES??

Monojit Lahiri explores how technology has reshaped intimacy and interpersonal communica...

April 1 2026

NOW STEPPING INTO HISTORY

Khalid Mohamed’s conversations with actor-turned-director Riteish Deshmukh over ti...

March 31 2026

CINEMA THAT BREATHES IN STILLNESS

An evocative evening of French and German short films in Mumbai explores stillness, abst...

March 29 2026