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FESTIVALS: CINEMA ENDURES BECAUSE ARTISTS PERSIST

A powerful three-day gathering in New Delhi explored cinema’s endurance against censorship, showcasing suppressed films, bold conversatio...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: WHEN PHANTOM INDIA WAS GHOSTED

Khalid Mohamed assesses the now accessible 1969 documentary, Phantom India, helmed by the French auteur Malle, which had been ...

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Bollywood

BOLLYWOOD: MR. MOHABBAT ZINDABAD!!

As Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge completes 30 years of success, Monojit Lahiri takes you down memory lane tracing the life and t...

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Trending

TRENDING: SCANDAL THAT SHOOK THE WORLD

Khalid Mohamed unspools the shocking adulterous affair in the extra-conservative era of post-independence India, and Europe, b...

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Bollywood

BOLLYWOOD: WHEN HISTORY MEETS HISTRIONICS

Using violence, it feeds into the stereotype, The Bengal Files weaponizes memory and history, turning past wounds into present propaganda, ampl...

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Festivals

FESTIVALS: ARE THE NATIONAL AWARDS LOSING THEIR WAY?

Once upon a time the most glamorous, eagerly-awaited and coveted award was Filmfare founded in 1954, but today the National Awards’ credi...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: ABOUT PSYCHOANALYTIC MOTIFS

 

Devdutt Trivedi critiques David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future Read More

Bollywood

BOLLYWOOD: SOME STORIES STAY BURIED

Why a sequel to Zubeidaa can never be made: because truth, memory, and myth blur irreversibly when royalty, cinema, and unresolved grief intert...

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Business and Politics

BUSINESS: CHALLENGING CREDIBILITY OR INFLUENCING SALE?

From Leela Chitnis to today’s stars, celebrity advertising in India has evolved dramatically—entertaining, controversial, and often...

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Business and Politics

POLITICS: PADMA SHRI, AN ARTIST AND A “SADHVI”

In this poignant reflection, the author, Sharad Raj, contrasts the recognition of iconic artist Prof. Ranbir Singh Bisht with ...

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