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Lights Still On: Portrait of a 70-year-old Photo Studio where once Bollywood’s Legendary Stars Shone Bright

 The incalculable number of photographs – running into crores – of vintage Hindi cinema’...

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Kaleidoscope

Into the Mind of A Cop

A lot of writers have come up with bestselling crime fiction, but not many of them would know the workings of a...

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Retroscope

Bioscopewala

Call him the Kabuliwala ...

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Learning to See: The Intriguing World of Insects

A documentary about insects is a type of a film which one wouldn't pick to watch on a binge-watch weekend. Yet there's something different a...

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Human Rights

Racial bias in the field of Science

A racism scandal at H&M was the latest indication of management problems at the Swedish clothing giant. H&a...

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Environment

The Great Dying is not What You Think It Is

Somehow, most of the life on Earth perished in a brief moment of geologic time roughly 250 million years ago. S...

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Retroscope

The Other Dilip Kumar

As the car heaves uphill from the Khar end, I notice a high blue scaffolding covering that familiar old place.  A sign board is clearly visible outside. Despite the sm...

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Kaleidoscope

The Cobrador’s Stare

Debt collectors are known to be aggressive and sometimes violent, but what happens with a black-clad hooded figure does nothing but follow a defaulter around and stare at h...

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Dazzling Debut

When Fiona Mozley’s debut novel Elmet made it to the Man Booker Awards shortlist this year, alongside writers like Paul Auster and Ali Smith, ...

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The Old Man And The Tree

This octogenarian is the last surviving master craftsman of the fading Likhai woodwork tradition of Kumaon A million wrinkles crease his face; his eyes are clouded with age...

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