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A SLICE OF BENGAL IN TELANGANA

The recently concluded 4th edition of the Telangana Bengali Film Festival brought to the limelight exciting new talent. Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri writes about how the festival ha...

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Memories of an advertising man…

In this fascinating first-person-account, Monojit Lahiri, known for his Bollywood-driven opinion pieces, tracks the changing contours of India’s ‘adscape’ ov...

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Sabarmati Ashram: To be or not to be

  The government is mulling over revamping Sabarmati Ashram; people from various walks of life talk to Monarose Sheila Pereira about their views on the same. L...

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EXIT: T-20 WORLD CUP MADNESS! RE-ENTER: HUSBAND!!

Monojit Lahiri records the hilarious lamentations of a World Cup Widow, just married, with the hubby clean bowled by the Dadima of all cricket tournaments! Akash really pursu...

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Bollywood

A Few Bad Men (and Women): The Journey of the Villain in Hindi Cinema

National Award-winning Balaji Vittal speaks to Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri on his new book, Pure Evil: The Bad Men of Bollywood Imagine Star Wars without Darth Vader - or Harry Po...

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Should fireworks be banned?

The pollution caused by firecrackers this Diwali still hangs in the air and it has made breathing difficult for many. Monarose Sheila Pereira listens to eminent people from th...

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Hollywood

In the land of the capitalists

‘Battleship Potemkin’ was premiered at the historic Bolshoi Theatre auditorium in Moscow on December 21, 1925, writes Monish K Das The audience consisted of the w...

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Bollywood

Star! Music Director! Singer!... Lyricist.

Why is the songwriter always last in the ‘hit parade’? Monojit Lahiri attempts to tune-in on this little-explored topic. It was while observing a Salman Khan fan ...

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The Performing Arts in Lockdown

Art needs to be showcased. Various artists speak to Monarose Sheila Pereira about their work during the pandemic. Tune in - Bikram Ghosh, Tabla maestro I have do...

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Bollywood

The biography of Sanjeev Kumar

Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri talks to Sumant Batra, who has co-written Sanjeev Kumar’s biography, An Actor’s Actor, with Hanif Zaveri and presents an extract from the un...

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HAS BOLLYWOOD FORGOTTEN SCREEN LOVE

Today, with crime nationalism, and action calling the shots has love vanished from the s...

September 26 2026

EK LAMHA ZINDAGI: LOVE BEYOND BORDERS Juhi Babbar

Soni delivers a remarkable solo performance in Ek Lamha Zindagi, directed by Makrand Des...

September 25 2026

SHATRUGHAN SINHA & MENEKA GANDHI LAUNCH TOXIC

Shatrughan Sinha and Maneka Gandhi launched Dr Mukesh Batra’s Toxic in New Delhi, ...

September 24 2026