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FESTIVALS: THE CHANGING FACE OF DURGA PUJA

Religious Fest? Reality Show? Sponsored Program? A little of all these? Monojit Lahiri lays it on the line, examining how Durg...

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Gender

GENDER: BOLLYWOOD'S MODERN MOTHERS

Young Bollywood mothers like Kareena Kapoor Khan and Anushka Sharma are breaking stereotypes by balancing thriving careers and motherhood. They...

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Gender

THE BEST FEMALE ACTORS OF 2023: TINAA GHAAI

This week-long series brings to you, next, the best of 2023 through the eyes of another among the very influential in Bollywood. Actor and Exec...

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Bollywood

BOLLYWOOD TIK-TALK: MAMATA BANERJEE IN THE SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK

Bollywood stars grace the inaugural ceremony stage at the Kolkata International Film Festival, Alia Bhatt tells Rajkummar Rao she’s spent...

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Bollywood

JAYA BHADURI: SIGNATURE-SUPERSTARDOM REVISITED

“Jaya Bhaduri’s diminutive physical frame had cast a large image across the screens of India”, writes Aparajita Krish...

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Thought Factory

पानइंडिया (PaanIndia!)

The history of Paan has mythological as well as historical and Ayurvedic references, writes Aparajita Krishna.

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Bollywood

AGEISM, STEREOTYPING AND PAY DISPARITY IN BOLLYWOOD

While Bollywood, masters of tokenism, has occasionally tried to counter ageism and stereotyping, it has mainly played safe, distancing itself w...

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Festivals

KANTARA, GANGUBAI, KUNCHACKO BOBAN, ALIA BHATT RATED BEST OF 2022

Indian Film Institute (IFI) has announced its annual ratings of the best films and best male and female actors of 2022, reports The Dai...

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Thought Factory

AB@80me@61

Aparajita Krishna writes a letter to Amitabh Bachchan, recalling her relationship with him while she was growing up over the y...

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Festivals

Religious Festivals: Sponsored or Reality Shows?

Today, as we once again step into puja mode in this year of 2022, do we feel somewhere, somehow, a change in the puja celebrations, wonders Monojit Lahiri....

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