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VOICES: How it worked in 2020

The Pandemic still continues as we move out of the year of 2020 and move into the next year of 2021. Several professionals talk to Monarose Sheila Pereira, how their work scen...

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Alternative Entertainment

IT’S APPY NEW YEAR AND A BOUQUET OF TALKS

Here’s another in her series of a bouquet of talks, by Aparajita Krishna. This time she converses with Manmohan Shetty, Govind Nihalani, Pritish Nandy, Mrinal Sen and Ma...

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Alternative Entertainment

Of human bondage

Khalid Mohamed’s throwback to his encounter with social documentarist, Sebastio Salgado, whom he rates as the world’s most impactful living photographer today. Th...

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Gender

Behind Every Successful COVID Vaccine Is A Woman

At least in the field of vaccine development, women have shown that they are capable of delivering a safer world. More power to our new sheroes, writes Dr Anurag Yadav Ayn Ra...

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Movies

Alibabas galore…

Film historian Dhruv Somani flashbacks to the plethora of Bollywood movies, which were once fascinated by the adventures of Alibaba and the 40 Thieves. Since time immemorial,...

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Business and Politics

Signs of the time: The Trolley Times

No New Years greetings from me to you. There is little to celebrate, writes Humra Quraishi Nothing much to look forward to. Nothing to talk about except of the gloom and the ...

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TV

Pause for a cause

Khalid Mohamed thumbs up the cautionary Unpaused, checks out the complicated crime thriller and gives up on a dithering bid to take over  Casino: My Game, My Rules UNPAU...

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Festivals

What do you wish for Christmas?

Various professionals speak to Monarose Sheila Pereira, and share their Christmas wishes. It is Christmas - that magical season when our hearts and the air is filled with lov...

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Alternative Entertainment

The outlier of French new wave: Claude Chabrol

In a career that spanned over five decades, Claude Chabrol (24 June 1930 - 12 Sep 2010) was one of the most prolific and widely respected of French film directors, writes Vand...

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Business and Politics

2020 In One Word: What’s Yours?

Dr Sandeep Goyal views the year 2020 as the time that has introduced us to the “new” normal. Forget 2020. What is my single word for 2021? “Normalcy”?...

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SHAKUNTALA NAGARKAR: DEATH IN THE SADDLE

A tribute by Prof Dr Avinash Kolhe to legendary Lavani exponent Shakuntala Nagarkar, who...

September 28 2026

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