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Salim Arif: His Work of Many Parts

It is a daunting task to undertake summarising Salim Arif’s multifaceted talent and work resume in a few pages, writes Aparajita Krishna.  This article has been an...

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Gas-lighting: The News Normal

Vinta Nanda analyzes the news media as it stands today and what it can achieve for its mass audiences if it so chooses to do. The news, in layman terms, is the transfer of th...

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So much hokum-pokum

Khalid Mohamed reviews the time-travel series JL 50, the documentary  Social Dilemma and more fare, streaming on channels currently.  Woe ho. There’s been so ...

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Celebrity: Served With A Pinch Of Salt

Let’s read about what Dr Sandeep Goyal has to say, when asked how difficult are celebs really to deal with. Honestly, because there really is no straight answer to that...

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Self Indulgence to Self Discovery

Bhooma Sundararajan writes, that boredom and inaction sets in when one has a lot of empty time in hand and no anchor in life to commit that time usefully.  I faced such ...

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Verdict: Zero Tolerance to Drug Abuse

The Daily Eye Newsdesk reports that according to the latest IIHB survey, as high as 82% youngsters in the 18-30 year age cohort said drug abuse by a celebrity made them &lsquo...

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Let the music play on…

Musicians and singers share their stories about how they’re coping during lockdown, with Monarose Sheila Pereira. No gigs, no events, no mehfils, no shows and no releas...

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No Man is an island

Rinki Roy Bhattacharya writes that the relentless media coverage about the pandemic we are all stuck in was guaranteed to turn the toughest into a couch potato, an escapi...

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Similar strokes

Call it a coincidence or plain copycatting. Film historian, Dhruv Somani, writes on the curious clashes between Bollywood filmmakers who have tackled the same subject or story...

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She loved Cinema: Pamela Rooks

Humra Quraishi revisits the life and times of Pamela Rooks. And, her films, Miss Beatty’s Children and Train to Pakistan. I had  met  Pamela  Rooks sever...

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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