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Festivals

STORIES TRAVEL FROM PAGE TO SCREEN

The Waterfront Indie Film Festival (WIFF) Mumbai launches its literature vertical with a two-day programme at SOCIAL Versova, bringing authors, playwrights and screenwriters t...

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Powerful People

JOY SENGUPTA: ACTOR WITHOUT COMPROMISE

In a rare, deeply reflective conversation with Khalid Mohamed, actor Joy Sengupta traces his journey across theatre, cinema and television, speaking about artistic integrity, ...

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Festivals

MUMBAI DESIGNER WINS KASHISH POSTER

Mumbai-based designer Pari Nirmal wins the KASHISH 2026 International Poster Design Contest, bringing the festival’s theme “Reflect, Resonate, Rejoice!” to l...

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Gender

WOMEN RESISTING POWER IN INDIA

This Women’s Day, Vinta Nanda looks out for women in India resisting food capitalism, environmental destruction and human rights violations — reminding us that the...

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Alternative Entertainment

SAFAR MEIN SHAHAR: CITY AS CHARACTER

Film critic Utpal Datta explores Mazhar Q. Kamran’s Safar Mein Shahar, examining how Mumbai emerges not merely as a setting but as a living character shaped by memory, m...

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Health

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE HUMAN FACTOR

Writer Ranjan Das Gupta reflects on emotional intelligence as a human, ethical and social force. Drawing from personal experience, philosophy and society, he examines how emot...

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Thought Factory

A LAST CALL FOR THE PLANET

In this in-depth conversation with Vinta Nanda, Fr. Kureethadam Joshtrom reflects on ecology as an ethical and spiritual challenge, urging humanity to embrace ecological conve...

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Retroscope

FORGOTTEN DANCING QUEEN OF HINDI CINEMA

The Last Dance: Tragedy of a Dancing Queen - Khalid Mohamed narrates the rise and fall of the iconic Cuckoo Moray, who mentored Helen but died in abject penury, and is at most...

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Hollywood

MOTHER MYTH MAN CALLED SHAKESPEARE

Yashika Begwani reflects on Hamnet, where Chloé Zhao reimagines Shakespeare through Agnes, the grieving mother, exploring love, loss, creativity and the unseen feminine...

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Thought Factory

HALF CAULIFLOWER, PIECE OF CAKE

Sharad Raj reflects on everyday encounters in India that reveal deep economic inequality, questioning middle-class complacency and the illusions of liberalization through simp...

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MAHOGATHA REVIVES MAHASHWETA DEVI’S LEGACY

Prof Dr Avinash Kolhe reviews Mahogatha, a powerful Hindi theatrical adaptation of three...

May 11 2026

DAADI KI SHADI REVIEW ANALYSIS

Arnab Banerjee reviews Daadi Ki Shadi, examining its progressive premise, hesitant story...

May 10 2026

BOLLYWOOD MOTHERS BECOME MODERN MOMS

On Mother’s Day, writer Monojit Lahiri reflects on Bollywood’s evolving scre...

May 10 2026