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AMITABH BACHCHAN: HINDI CINEMA’S DARK EDGE

The Greatest villain that Hindi films could not have…though one is not complaining about what one got instead. Sharad Raj explor...

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Bollywood

VADH 2 EXPLORES JUSTICE AND AGING

Crime, Conscience, and Companionship in the Twilight Years: Arnab Banerjee.
Jaspal Singh Sandhu’s Vadh 2 examines ...

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Sustainable Development

TWO-CHILD NORM ENDANGERS CHILDREN AND DEMOCRACY

A shocking murder in Maharashtra exposes the dangers of India’s two-child norm, as Population Foundation of Indi...

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Thought Factory

SHOBHAA DE STRIKES AGAIN, AGE HAS NO LIMITS

WARNING! DANGER AHEAD FOR - THE PRUDISH PURITANICAL…SHOBHAA DE STRIKES AGAIN!! Monojit Lahiri offers personalized observations on the un...

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Bollywood

REVIEW: HAPPY PATEL - KHATARNAK JASOOS IS BIG ON INTENT, LIGHT ON LAUGHS

The actor-director’s spy spoof aims for absurdist satire but collapses under stereotypes, scattered themes, and overextended gags, despit...

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Business and Politics

BUSINESS: GIG WORK AND CAPITALIST FAILURE

Sharad Raj examines the New Year’s Eve gig workers’ strike to expose how neo-capitalism, privatisation, and algori...

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Powerful People

POWERFUL PEOPLE: A BEAUTIFUL MIND

Veenapani Chawla’s chance encounter with Naseeruddin Shah culminated in the birth of the Adishakti Laboratory for Theatr...

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Powerful People

POWERFUL PEOPLE: THOSE BASIC VISUAL INSTINCTS

Ravi K. Chandran, among the A-list of superstar technicians of Hindi and south Indian language cinema, has excelled in his met...

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Powerful People

POWERFUL PEOPLE: NOT A MAN’S WORLD ANYMORE

Huma Qureshi, who believes that Mumbai’s show business isn’t a man’s exclusive world anymore, has belted out...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: TALE OF A CRIME THAT CUTS DEEP

A gripping Saudi thriller that uses the framework of a desert murder mystery to expose the deeper anxieties, silences, and societal constraints...

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