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POWERFUL PEOPLE 2025: THOSE WHO REFUSED THE EASY ANSWER

Power, in 2025, did not always announce itself loudly, nor did it seek instant legitimacy. Across cinema, poetry, activism, performance, pedagogy, and cultural memory, The Dai...

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THOUGHT FACTORY: THINKING SLOWLY IN NOISY TIMES

A year-end reflection on The Daily Eye’s Thought Factory, where writers interrogated art, power, cinema, gender, labour, media, and love—asserting that thinking, w...

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RETROSCOPE: LOOKING BACK AT WHAT ENDURES

A year of remembrance and resistance, where Khalid Mohamed, Monojit Lahiri, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri, Devdutt Trivedi, Utpal Datta and Satyabrate Ghosh revisited cinema’s ...

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FESTIVALS: YEAR-END REFLECTION ON FESTIVALS IN INDIA

A year-end reflection on how festivals became classrooms, archives, shelters and movements—through writings by Utpal Datta, Vinta Nanda, Sohaila Kapur, Monojit Lahiri, a...

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BOLLYWOOD: MEMORY, MEANING AND THE MOVING IMAGE

A year-end reflection on Hindi cinema through The Daily Eye’s seasoned critics—where nostalgia met urgency, spectacle met conscience, and Bollywood revealed itself...

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TRENDING: A YEAR THAT CHOSE MEANING OVER NOISE

2025 was a year when activism, cinema and conversations around music quietly—but decisively—shaped what truly mattered. At The Daily Eye, the stories that trended ...

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KALEIDOSCOPE 2025: WINDOWS INTO A PLURAL IMAGINATION

Across cinema, literature, art, theatre, reportage, pedagogy, and memory, Kaleidoscope 2025 charted The Daily Eye’s commitment to plural expression—where scholarsh...

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POWERFUL PEOPLE: NOT A MAN’S WORLD ANYMORE

Huma Qureshi, who believes that Mumbai’s show business isn’t a man’s exclusive world anymore, has belted out uber-powerful performances in the shows Delhi Cr...

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GENDER: GENDER | AUTONOMY | 2025 IN REFLECTION

From homes and heartbreaks to cinema, solitude, queer identity and evolving desire, The Daily Eye’s 2025 gender discourse traced how Indians negotiated power, love, labo...

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MOVIES: WHEN MEMORY BECOMES A COMPANION

When Memory Becomes a Companion is Utpal Datta’s meditative reading of Hamsafar, a silent Marathi short film that transforms an everyday object into a vessel of love, lo...

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SELF-DISCOVERY SERIES UNITES GENERATIONS WITH CINEMA

At the Self Discovery series of TRIS in Delhi, Saeed Mirza and Dibakar Banerjee engage w...

February 9 2026

VADH 2 EXPLORES JUSTICE AND AGING

Crime, Conscience, and Companionship in the Twilight Years: Arnab Banerjee. Jaspal Singh...

February 9 2026

OSCARS RETURN INDIA ENTRY EMPTY-HANDED AGAIN HOME

India’s 2026 Oscar hopes fade again as its official entry returns home, sparking d...

February 8 2026