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GENDER: LIVING ALONE, FINDING INNER STRENGTH

AkelaNest by Aparajita Krishna: A reflective, deeply personal exploration of single living and ageing in India today, AkelaNes...

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Thought Factory

THOUGHT FACTORY: DEATH OF THE WORKING CLASS HERO

Khalid Mohamed analyses the slow disappearance of the working-class protagonist from Hindi cinema, exploring how shifting audi...

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Thought Factory

THOUGHT FACTORY: LEGACY, VISION, ART, AND NATION

This article by filmmaker Sharad Raj celebrates Jawahar Lal Nehru’s 126th birth anniversary by reflecting on Nehru&rsquo...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: GHATAK, JUNG, BRECHT & PARTITION

In this profound essay, writer and filmmaker Sharad Raj explores how Ritwik Ghatak merged Marxism, Jungian ps...

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Bollywood

BOLLYWOOD: WHEN THE STAR MEETS A MEMORY

This one revisits Shah Rukh Khan’s early days through Monojit Lahiri’s recollection from 1989 — a time when ...

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Kaleidoscope

KALEIDOSCOPE: THROUGH CONFLICT, TRUTHS STAND TALL

My own encounter with the book has been a unique reader-experience, writes Aparajita Krishna. A one-of-a-kind in my reading of...

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Thought Factory

THOUGHT FACTORY: 30 YEARS OF DDLJ & STILL RUNNING

From Eurorail to Sarson Ke Khet: An Ethnography of DDLJ’s Everlasting Romance with India by Yashika Begwani, explores wh...

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Retroscope

RETROSCOPE: MIRACLE AND ‘THE CURSE’ OF JAI SANTOSHI MAA

Khalid Mohamed looks back at 1975, the year of Sholay and the miraculous success of Jai Santoshi Maa and its aftermath — a cinematic cont...

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Bollywood

BOLLYWOOD: STORIES OF STRUGGLE AND SURVIVAL

The marginalised have never had it easy—but in our own fractured land, their journey is not just arduous, it is often soul-scarring, as N...

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Retroscope

RETROSCOPE: A BITTERSWEET STROKE OF INTERVENTION

A nostalgic journey from childhood Chitrahaar evenings to Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Jurmana, tracing Bachchan’s evolving imag...

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