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Cannes: 21 Films That Stood Out At The 2015 Festival

Variety critics Scott Foundas, Justin Chang, Peter Debruge, Guy Lodge, Jay Weissberg and Maggie Lee weighed in with their choices for the 21 best films at this year’s...

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Bollywood

The Brave New Bollywood Heroine

Last month, I conducted a round-table interview with Anushka Sharma, Varun Dhawan, Navdeep Singh, who directed NH 10, and Sriram Raghavan, who directed Badlapur. The idea w...

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Sustainable Development

She Worked As Domestic Help In 5 Bengaluru Houses, Still Scored 84% In Class 12 Exam

17-year-old Shalini of Bengaluru has scored 84 per cent in her Class 12 exam. Nothing unusual, many would argue – except that when others took study breaks, this teen...

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Sustainable Development

When Women Step Out Of Indian Epics To Express Real Desires And Choices In Real Books

The Indian novel writing tradition is by and large a post colonial phenomenon. Right from one of the first novels in English written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay to the ...

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Thought Factory

Of Right Words And Persistent Images

‘Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, o...

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Thought Factory

Piracy And The Right To Entertainment

Walking through a busy Pali market in Bandra, Mumbai, on Saturdays, it’s almost certain to see ladies haggling over the size and shape of fruits and vegetables with t...

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Environment

Global warming documentary to close Cannes Film Festival

The global warming documentary ?Ice and Sky? will close out the 68th Cannes Film Festival. The French festival announced the selection Thursday, calling the film ?a hymn to...

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TV

Courtroom Drama Double Bill

Weekend nights couch potatoes have a choice of crime thrillers and courtroom dramas. Savdhaan India on Life Ok and Crime Patrol on Sony are dramatized real life police case...

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Trending

Prannoy Roy Trashes ‘Tsunami’ Of Tabloid Journalism

Blasting the trend of ‘tabloidisation’ of Indian news channels, NDTV co-founder Dr Prannoy Roy has said that the credibility of TV news channels is at stake and...

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Trending

Love Story To Be Flag Bearer Of Tata Sky’s Disruptive Initiative

MUMBAI: Indian DTH player Tata Sky rattled competitors when it launched the world’s first ‘Daily Recharge’ plan for meager Rs 8, which gave viewers the ch...

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