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No Khan Here: A Female Star Is Leading Bollywood’s First Rs 100 Crore Film This Year

Kangana Ranaut isn’t a big fan of the Rs 100 crore ($16 million) club—a so-called benchmark of success reserved for Bollywood films that have a net earning of R...

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Festivals

Vivanta by Taj & Manhattan Short Call For Entries for Manhattan Short 2015

Into its sixth year in Mumbai, Manhattan Short is looking for short films and documentaries that showcase India’s potential at the international finale

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Gender

After Retirement, Esther Ritz Became A Full-Time Painter At 55 And Never Looked Back

The art world has an alluring, if somewhat illusory, exterior. It gives off the impression of being progressive, fluid, experimental — a space for outsiders of all ki...

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TV

Note These Shows, Please

When scriptwriters and producers think out of the box and rope in actors to support their fresh thinking, one can see the emergence of shows which could make viewers sit up...

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Movies

50 Shades of May

May was on to an encouraging start with Gabbar Is Back, which kicked up a storm at the box office. Theanti-corruption background in films has a way of gett...

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Health

Improving Rural Health Care, One Boat Trip At A Time

More than 10 years ago, Sanjoy Hazarika heard about the death of a mother in a remote island in Assam, a state in northeast India, because she couldn’t get to the hos...

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Top 5

Technology, The New Value Add-On

Just as channels and producers are exploring new content, so too television screens are taking on a new look most of the time. What leaps out of the screen is a barrage of ...

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Hollywood

Edie Falco Voices Orca Mother In PETA Campaign

PETA has officially kicked off the cross-country tour of its new state-of-the-art “I, Orca” empathy project, which uses wireless Google virtual reality (VR) gog...

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Festivals

11 highlights of SIFF 2015’s final weekend

On SIFF’s final weekend, highlights include a screening of the once-presumed-lost 1916 silent film “Sherlock Holmes” (starring William Gillette, who playe...

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Environment

Global Economy, ISIS, Climate Change To Be Top G-7 Agendas

WASHINGTON: Climate change, including role of India and China, global economy and counter-terrorism tactics will be some of the key topics that will dominate the upcoming G...

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