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Kaleidoscope

My Darkest Time

In this long-short personal story of having overcome a big challenge, Gaurav Jain says, “When you break your leg, you know it! There is no perhaps!” “Take t...

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Powerful People

Framed: Film Editor Ballu Saluja

Aparajita Krishna, writer and filmmaker, profiles the much accomplished editor Ballu Saluja in our first in the series of artistes behind-the-scenes.  Cut to: Lagaan (20...

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Bollywood

Sudden Impact: In Conversation with Harsh Chhaya

Khalid Mohamed interviews Harsh Chhaya, whose performance as a despotic Papaji in the series Undekhi, is as laceratingly real as it gets. Foxy eyes, an unerasable smug grin, ...

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Kaleidoscope

Over my dead body

Aroona Bhat decodes the last breath; the many times people inhale and exhale before they take it. She figures, that life’s purpose is found somewhere in between. As a c...

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Sustainable Development

Meet Roshni Nuggehalli and Marina Joseph of YUVA

In this time of Covid-19, the world has witnessed upheaval in almost every sphere of life while impacting the social fabric of society. In India, we were forced to sit up and ...

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Movies

Vanished III: The male actors who disappeared from Bollywood

Film historian, Dhruv Somani, concludes his series on the vanishing acts of Bollywood, this time tracking down the male actors who quit the B-town scene.  Right off, her...

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Thought Factory

Sycophancy: At the intersection of Art & Politics

Vinta Nanda writes about the mood in the country. She says that Bollywood and Indian Politics, both, are in deep denial.  It was cringe when DK Sivakumar, Indian politic...

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Festivals

KASHISH 2020 Virtual: French film The Shiny Shrimps

157 films from 42 films to screen at the 11th edition of KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival to be held from July 22-30, 2020 The 11th edition of KASHI...

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Those Placid Waters

Humra  Quraishi tells another heartbreaking shortstory, set in Kashmir, where the blur between who is the enemy and who is not, has obscured the truth.   Shifting o...

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Health

Doctors: Born to save lives

Photojournalist SL Shanth Kumar was granted exclusive access to Wockhardt Hospital in Mumbai, which is currently treating affected patients. As COVID-19 cases continue to r...

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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