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President Urges Film Industry To Look Beyond Markets & Nurture Human Values

President Pranab Mukherjee has urged the film industry to look beyond markets and work together to help “nurture universal human values, which draw on our rich civilizat...

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It's Time For Hollywood Ageism To Die, And Change Needs To Come From The Top

Marta Kauffman was at lunch with the head of Skydance Productions when she found out that Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin were interested in working in television. She thought the ...

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Education Is A Cause I Care Deeply About: Irrfan

Actor Irrfan joined hands with a consumer products company to visit one of their schools in the national capital, where he shared some of his childhood memories with children ...

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Journalist Moved To Back Row At Jain Event Because ‘Women Don’t Occupy Front Seats In Presence Of Monks’

A woman journalist being asked to shift from the front row reserved for media to make way for monks at a function to felicitate Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has triggered ...

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Theatre in the jungle Nook

My recent trip to Tadoba turned out to be more than exceptional, not only wildlife-wise but I also got an introduction to a whole new world of theatre. The four eastern distri...

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Striking “Black Gold” with Public Health Entertainment-Education

Listen: a village in Mozambique is being confronted with the arrival of a foreign mining company, causing the traditional and modern communities to clash and creating personal...

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Not just small change: Indian philanthropy falls short, when will India get its Melinda Gates?

Two Americans are transforming millions of lives in UP and Bihar. Melinda Gates on her last trip to Maoist-affected villages in Jharkhand said she didn’t go there to ask...

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Salma Hayek Visits Lebanon With UNICEF To Raise Funds For Syrian Refugees

Salma Hayek visited Syrian refugees in Lebanon on April 25 to draw attention to the urgent humanitarian needs of children and families whose lives have been upended by the bru...

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Box Office bleeding: The Empty Screens Syndrome

The ticket window for Bollywood films has been seeing a continual slump for the last three years. It’s basically because of lack of good content, originality, scripts an...

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The Future of Cinema

Roughly 1.26 billion movie tickets were purchased in North America between January 1 and December 31 of last year, according to preliminary estimates by The Hollywood Reporter...

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STUDENT CITY PART 4

Written by Prof Dr Piyush Roy, Student City Part 4 revisits the emotional rivalries, cam...

May 14 2026

TWO POWERFUL THEATRE REFLECTIONS

Sohaila Kapur reflects on two compelling theatre experiences — the experimental st...

May 13 2026

THE STING BEHIND BOLLYWOOD PAPARAZZI

Khalid Mohamed, without being judgmental, reports on the love-hate relationship of the c...

May 12 2026