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Vandana Kumar explores how a film like The Hairdresser’s Husband starts as a man’s fetish and ends like a singular love story. In a world where there is n...
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Film historian Dhruv Somani, tracks the once super-successful career of the underappreciated playback-singing career of Hemlata, who inexplicably quit the Bollywood music scen...
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Humra Quraishi talks about how polarisation in grassroots India, by the use of state machinery, is spreading violence and fear among minorities. Earlier this week a ...
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Khalid Mohamed writes on his documentary on the superstar cinematographer, Ashok Mehta, which is languishing in a hard disk somewhere. There’s a hard disk sitti...
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Mallika Bhaumik reviews Krztysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colours Red and reads the auteur’s mind while elucidating her own thoughts about it. After watching Krzt...
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This year too many exams are being conducted online. Educationists talk to Monarose Sheila Pereira about the pros and cons of the same. Dr. (Fr.) Joseph M.T., Assistant Pro...
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Gautam Benegal discusses the twin pronged strategy applied by the present union government to establish absolute dominance. Do you see the connection between the advantageo...
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Aparajita Krishna walks you through the rich life of theatre stalwart Usha Ganguly, through Om Pareek’s experience of having worked with her and her theatre company Rang...
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Film historian Dhruv Somani, recalls the Florence Nightingales of Bollywood cinema. The nursing staff has been working relentlessly throughout the pandemic. They are the wo...
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Humra Quraishi explores why even the brave and honest in positions of authority choose to remain silent when they are witness to what is morally wrong. In this battle betwe...
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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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