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COME SEPTEMBER: IT IS TIME TO REMEMBER TEACHERS

Come September, two significant days stand out. Teachers Day on 5th September and the World Alzheimer’s Day on 21st September,...

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Alternative Entertainment

STAR BENEGA ACTOR? SIMPLE…LAGAO DE-GLAM FACTOR!

Monojit Lahiri examines Bollywood’s fascinating disease about every star’s secret desire to be hailed as an actor....

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Thought Factory

HRISHIKESH MUKHERJEE: THE EVERYMAN FILMMAKER

Hrishikesh Mukherjee passed away at the age of 83 on 27th August 2006. On his 17th death anniversary Shantanu Ray...

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Gender

STRAW DOGS: POETICS OF VIOLENCE OR MISOGYNY?

Based on a novel by Gordon Williams – ‘The Siege of Trencher’s Farm’, it was also my first exposure and my starting poi...

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Alternative Entertainment

MANI KAUL’S ICONOCLASTIC USKI ROTI

This film is a juxtaposition of slow-moving close-ups and wide shots layered with lots of silence and interspersed with a few monotonous dialog...

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Powerful People

Dr SUCHETAN PRADHAN: THE CULTURE BEHIND DENTISTRY

I am in conversation with one of India’s best known practicing dentists: an implant aesthetic and laser dentist, writes Aparajita...

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Bollywood

BOLLYWOOD TIK-TALK: THERE’S MUCH HAPPENING WITH GHOOMER

It’s raining stars, as the proverbial saying goes, in Bollywood. Especially on streaming channels where, it seems, all the action has shi...

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Kaleidoscope

THE MAN WHO WOULD NOT BE KING

More than 2500 years after he preached his eight-fold path, does the Buddha’s example matter to a world divided by multiple human-made co...

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Bollywood

REMEMBERING BOLLYWOOD’S GREATEST STAR-ACTOR OF HER GENERATION: SRIDEVI

On the occasion of her sixtieth birthday, 13th August, Monojit Lahiri salutes the memory of the matchless and timeless Ms Hawa...

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Alternative Entertainment

LENSED BY SAHIR RAZA, APURVA GOURI SINGS TO GAUHAR RAZA’S LYRICS & ZICO A.KA. SOUTRIK CHAKRABORTI’S TUNE

The theme song for the Mere Ghar Aa Ke To Dekho campaign, in the voice of Apurva Gouri, written by Gauhar Raza and directed by Sahir Raza was r...

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