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7/7/07: Heart Of Darkness

Reyhaneh Jabbari was just nineteen when she was arrested for the murder of a man who tried to rape her. After six years of torture and torment she was hanged in October 201...

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TV

True Review - Television This Week: A Talking Car And Friendly Ghosts

I don?t think Maruti Suzuki could have come up with a better marketing strategy than having a sitcom driven round Alto, their No. 1 small car. Chalti Ka Naam Gadi ? Let?s G...

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Health

Jharkhand At India’s Heart Of Maternal-Care Darkness.

This week, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced – quoting the World Health Organisation (WHO) – that India was free of maternal and neo-natal tetanus, the ...

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Festivals

Denis, Jia, Holland To Lead First TIFF Platform Jury.

Festival selects trio to judge first competitive section, aimed at ‘auteur films’; Cameron Bailey talks strand. The Toronto International Film Festival (Septemb...

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TV

A JUDICIAL MILESTONE

Last Sunday night, after the Roop Kanwar case, Bhanwar went back to another landmark in judicial history. The last jury trial in India. In the...

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Thought Factory

POLITICS AND COMPLEXITY OF CULTURES IN INDIAN MEDIA

Writing entertaining content is no longer about an indulgence; nor about the purging of an overwhelmed soul.

Neither is it about following directives of marketing a...

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Movies

Badlapur

Critics rating:  3.5 Stars

Cast: Varun Dhawan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Huma Qureshi, Vinay Pathak, Divya Dutta, Radhika Apte, Yami G...

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Eye Think

How Data Can Improve the Impact of Stories

‘Our ancestors created their myths and told their stories for a human purpose. Any good story, any good novel, should have a message’, wrote Chinua Achebe, the ...

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Movies

True Review: Haider

Critics Rating: 2.5 Stars*

Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Kay Kay Menon, Tabu, Shraddha Kapoor’

Direction: Vishal Bhar...

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Bollywood

Mahesh Bhatt lends support to rice bucket challenge

Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt Friday lent support to the ‘rice bucket challenge’ by distributing ‘biryani’ packets among the needy at a programme organised...

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