Thought Box

Such a curious Journey: Raj More, from mimicry shows to National Award-winning Artist

His artworks are tongue-in-cheek comments – on subjects ranging from demonetisation and political unrest to the vice-like grip of Bollywood cinema on the youth today. C...

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Home and Heart

Reading Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered, the thought that passes through the mind is: there but for the grace of god goes any middle-class family, when a...

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Bomba Estéreo: A Colombian band that performs to make a Difference

The Grammy nominated Columbian band ‘Bomba Estéreo’ stands out for the way they combine elements of nature and folkloric rhythms that takes after their cult...

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The Perfect Marriage

The Marathi play Chi Sau Ka Rangbhumi, produced by Natyasampada’s Anant Panshikar, written and directed by Sampada Joglekar Kulkarni works with a fascinating premis...

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Books to read in the New Year

Here is a list of must-read fiction and non-fiction coming out in the year 2019. Non-Fiction – 2019 The very first on the list stands Julia Blackburn’s Time...

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The Revolutionary Heart

There’s a rare film which arouses you like a lover’s first kiss. And it’s the rare film-maker who can survive the test of time. Respect and regard for that k...

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After The Storm

The heroine of best-selling author Ruth Ware’s Death of Mrs Westaway, is the feisty Hal, who thinks on her feet. Her twisty-turny story is not diluted with needless...

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The Favourite Songs of 2018

Around 50 Guardian music writers have picked their favourite songs of the year from UK drill breakthroughs to pure pop anthems and enclosed them all on Spotify and Apple Music...

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Beckett and Apocalypse

Samuel Becket's Waiting For Godot has had several productions in Mumbai (Motley's being the most famous), but Endgame is also considered one of the classic...

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#WCCWiki on a mission to reduce gender bias in Wikipedia

Wikipedia is termed to be the largest global source of information and the fifth most visited website in the world. It was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimm...

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POWERFUL PEOPLE: LISTENING TO LIVES

Journalist, author, translator, and cultural chronicler Sathya Saran reflects on a life ...

December 15 2025

BOLLYWOOD: THE IMMORTAL MAJESTY OF SHOLAY

An Ode to the Eternal Luminescence of Indian Cinema by Arnab Banerjee: A sweeping, deepl...

December 14 2025

RETROSCOPE: THE FLAME THAT STILL BURNS

When Smita Patil Breathed Her Last On The Midnight Of December 13, 1986, The World Of Ci...

December 13 2025