Our Tarzans: Bollywood’s romance with the Lord of the Jungle

Film historian, Dhruv Somani, tracks down the unusual repertoire of desi Tarzan movies, which once used to delight Indian audi...

Copy-right-Copy-wrong

Veena Bakshi reveals the flawed system by which our Indian entertainment universe operates; where copyrights holders may as we...

Who decides?

Newcomers we were to this survival game, to this locale, to this one-room setting, to this downslide, to this helplessness. We were new at sawi...

What a change!

I turn towards him and stare at him – he’s a lump of flesh, which just breathes, writes Humra Quraishi

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Wake up & smell the Propaganda

Liquidity via monetary policy is like blood infusion into a patient admitted for a heart transplant in a near death situation. And fiscal stimu...

CPI (M) condemns Palghar mob lynching, demands thorough inquiry

The CPI (M) Maharashtra State Committee strongly condemns the shocking incident of mob lynching that took place on the night of April 16 in the...

Shahryar and those sharks

 “As I stood there, I could see Shahryar walking around. And even as I kept calling out to him, he didn’t respond. Perhaps, di...

A touch of class

Review of Season’s Greetings, a short film which probes sexual identities

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