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Business and Politics

Why Modi Government's Renaming Frenzy is a Political Act of Invasion

You have a right to name that which you have built. But no right to rename that which has been built by oth...

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Kaleidoscope

A Tale of True Grit

Today, if a girl wants to be a doctor, she is encouraged by her parents and teachers to go for the high marks n...

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Retroscope

Bioscopewala

Call him the Kabuliwala ...

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Retroscope

Haidar Ali @70 & His Familial Film Heritage: A Treasure Trove

Voter-India ought to be voting Nirbhaya (unafraid) in 2018/ 2019 also for the freedom of Film India, Fashion In...

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Bollywood

The Test of Love: Director Sudhir Mishra to make a film on Renu Saluja

Over the years Bollywood has seen directors not only talking openly about their personal lives but also sharing...

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Gender

Has Justice for Women in India Improved?

In 1890, a case of a Bengali child bride named Phulmani, who died following brutal conjugal intercourse went to trial in the Calcutta Sessio...

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Environment

Delhi’s Air Pollution – at the Cost of Innocent Children’s Health

The Calcutta National Cancer Institute submitted a proposal for studies on health impact of air pollution on adults and schoolchildren of Delhi to the Central Pollution Con...

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Retroscope

On The Eve Of Another Silent Anniversary

Overwhelmed by grief when my father passed away in January 1966
I did not know how to combat that empty feeling. I was just 23 years old and I had had so much to talk,...

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Retroscope

Retroscope - A legacy of taste

Young couples who elope to marry, remember Romeo Juliet (the poor kids died)​ Raj Kapoor’s Bobby or the young lovers from a recent Marathi blockbuster Sairat that h...

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Alternative Entertainment

Throwback Movie: The Big City - Satyajit Ray

There’s something galvanic about a filmmaker going home to work, whether its Howard Hawks telling a story based on his grandfather in “Come and Get It” or...

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