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Thought Factory

Cultural Entrepreneurship in India

India’s cultural heritage goes back over 5000 years even before the much discussed Indus Valley Civilization. Since the advent of recorded history there is enough evi...

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TV

TED Talks India Nayi Soch: Reinventing a Brand-New India

Can ideas take flight? Shah Rukh Khan’s new TV series brings a neoteric theme and TED content for a brand new audience of the mundane idiot boxes. The idea to bring &...

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Powerful People

Shashi Kapoor - The Actor Without Airs Is No More

Shashi Kapoor, born as Balbir Prithviraj Kapoor, who was adored as the Adonis of Hindi Cinema and hailed as an actor with a global appeal of his own is no more. The embodim...

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Human Rights

Casting out Caste

The Cochin Devaswom Board of temples recently took a huge step towards an equal India, by appointing a Dalit priest at a temple. Kuzhuppully Umesh Krishnan of Matilakam bec...

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Retroscope

21 years of Commemorating Roy

The Bimal Roy Memorial Committee and Film Society, founded in honour of Bimal Roy, the 'Silent Master' of the Golden Age of Indian Cinema turns 21 years old this year.

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Retroscope

On The Eve Of Another Silent Anniversary

Overwhelmed by grief when my father passed away in January 1966
I did not know how to combat that empty feeling. I was just 23 years old and I had had so much to talk,...

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Kaleidoscope

No Way Out

Of all the characters in the Mahabharat, it is perhaps Abhimanyu who most strongly personifies the futility of war, and the toll it takes on the young and innocent, who are...

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Festivals

Habitat Film Festival To Feature Om Puri Tribute Retrospective

Om Puri’s frequent collaborator, organised filmmaker Govind Nihalani, will host the retrospective segment on the veteran actor at this year’s Habitat Film Festi...

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Human Rights

Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi Presses For Enforcement Of Juvenile Justice Act

Nobel Peace Prize winner and child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi has said that there is a very strong provision under Juvenile Justice Act in the country to stop childr...

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Human Rights

Satyarthi Demands UN Intervention To Save Children In Conflict Zones

Over 1,500 children assembled at the Raj Ghat here today for a ‘peace gathering’ in the wake of suspected chemical attack in Syria in which 27 children among ot...

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