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Retroscope

RETROSCOPE: REMEMBERING RAY’S IMMORTAL…APU!

On the late, legendary Soumitra Chatterjee’s 91st birthday on January 19th Monojit Lahiri pays homage to the remarkable actor, author, poet, dramatist, translator and pa...

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Business and Politics

BUSINESS: GIG WORK AND CAPITALIST FAILURE

Sharad Raj examines the New Year’s Eve gig workers’ strike to expose how neo-capitalism, privatisation, and algorithm-driven platforms have created a vast undercla...

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Powerful People

POWERFUL PEOPLE: A BEAUTIFUL MIND

Veenapani Chawla’s chance encounter with Naseeruddin Shah culminated in the birth of the Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre and Research in Puducherry, famed for its audac...

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Thought Factory

THOUGHT FACTORY: LISTENING IS THE NEW LOOKING

For years, we were trained to look, writes Vinta Nanda. Now, we are learning to listen—attentively, and without interruption—as India’s growing podcast cultu...

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Thought Factory

THOUGHT FACTORY: PREGNANT RECALLS!

Writer Aparajita Krishna weaves memory, cinema, politics, motherhood and moral courage into interlinked recalls, moving from Shyam Benegal’s Yatra to Badhaai Ho, and liv...

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Trending

TRENDING: AFTER ZUBEEN, A CULTURE REORGANISES ITSELF

Utpal Datta reflects on Assamese culture after Zubeen Garg, tracing legacy, rupture, and renewal across music, cinema, and stage, asking not who replaces him, but how creativi...

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Business and Politics

BUSINESS: KOHLI KE PEECHE KYA HAI??

A hymned and celebrated superstar in every cricket playing nation on planet earth, this guy keeps challenging every former/ existing great to discover new superlatives to desc...

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Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD: DESTINIES AND CULTURAL IDENTITIES

A reflective meditation on love, migration, memory, and cultural identity, this deeply personal reading of Past Lives (2023) by Vandana Kumar explores destiny, longing, and th...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: BÉLA TARR, I STRUGGLE TO NEGOTIATE

In this personal tribute by Sharad Raj, the author reflects on Béla Tarr’s cinematic legacy, his mastery of time and long take aesthetics, and how his fearless ar...

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Festivals

FESTIVALS: A JOURNEY FROM ARGENTINA TO INDIA

Art often travels before we do, crossing landscapes, languages and lived experiences, forming bridges where maps would show oceans — this exhibition becomes a poetic mee...

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BHARATMATA BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE!

Bharatmata cinema hall returns to Mumbai’s Lalbaug, writes Avinash Kolhe, reviving...

March 27 2026

BOLLYWOOD IGNORES WOMEN IN COMEDY

Monojit Lahiri investigates the persistent absence of strong comic roles for leading Bol...

March 26 2026

DELHI RECLAIMS CINEMA AND CREATIVE DIALOGUE

Anchored by Artistic Director Vani Tripathi Tikoo’s powerful reflection, IFFD 2026...

March 25 2026