Thought Box

Do We Know What Our Children Want?

"There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place." J.K. Rowling   Over the last one century or so, ordinary people like myself and many mill...

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Tired Hands, Weary Feet

‘Slavery is legally banned. But millions of India’s children live and work in slave labour conditions — bonded labour, sex trafficking, child labour, do...

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Femme Very Fatale

There have been dangerous women in popular fiction, a few serial killers too, but Jodie Danforth is in a class apart. It is a generalisation, perhaps unfair, that women are af...

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Kaleidoscope - Maid For Mumbai

It may or may not be true of other cities, but Mumbai moves on tracks built partly by the bais, the domestic helpers, mostly from rural Maharashtra, who manage homes, so that ...

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Kaleidoscope - No Lese Majeste Intended

One of the most popular plays by the National Theatre, London is The Audience, which thank to the NT Live programme that allows audience around the world to watch th...

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Kaleidoscope - Rebellious Women

At a time in the past, when women were denied education or any kind of independent existence, the only ones to have some limited freedom were female performers - sin...

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Kaleidoscope - Rule Of King

Stephen King who is known for his horror novels and thrillers, wrote a detective novel called Mr Mercedes, and then wrote two more with the same characters turning it into a h...

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Kaleidoscope - Two To Tango

A new play Mr & Mrs Murarilal has a middle-age man and woman - played by SatishKaushik and Meghna Malik - have a romantic rendezvous in a park. They have a defiant, &lsqu...

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The Law Cannot Be Blind Kaleidoscope

12 Angry Men, written by Reginald Rose in 1957 was a teleplay, converted to a film by the great Sidney Lumet. The play is one of the classics of modern theatre—a powerfu...

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Kaleidoscope - Precious Friendships

Two books about enduring friendships, both beautiful and heartwarming are very different—one about two female friends and the other about four male friends.  The fi...

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JJ SCHOOL’S FREEDOM ART REVEALED

Prof. Dr. Avinash Kolhe explores how JJ School of Art students captured India’s fr...

August 11 2026

OHH MY DOG: LOVE, LOYALTY, LOSS

Canine Loyalty Meets A Darker Tale of Loss, Courage and Justice. Arnab Banerjee reviews ...

August 10 2026

INDEPENDENT CINEMA FINDS ITS AUDIENCE

At WIFF 2025, Kabeer Khurana, Deepa Gahlot and Siddharth Kak examined independent cinema...

August 9 2026