Thought Box
Business and Politics

BUSINESS: GIG WORK AND CAPITALIST FAILURE

Sharad Raj examines the New Year’s Eve gig workers’ strike to expose how neo-capitalism, privatisation, and algorithm-driven platforms have created a vast undercla...

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Powerful People

POWERFUL PEOPLE: A BEAUTIFUL MIND

Veenapani Chawla’s chance encounter with Naseeruddin Shah culminated in the birth of the Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre and Research in Puducherry, famed for its audac...

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Thought Factory

THOUGHT FACTORY: LISTENING IS THE NEW LOOKING

For years, we were trained to look, writes Vinta Nanda. Now, we are learning to listen—attentively, and without interruption—as India’s growing podcast cultu...

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Thought Factory

THOUGHT FACTORY: PREGNANT RECALLS!

Writer Aparajita Krishna weaves memory, cinema, politics, motherhood and moral courage into interlinked recalls, moving from Shyam Benegal’s Yatra to Badhaai Ho, and liv...

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Business and Politics

BUSINESS: KOHLI KE PEECHE KYA HAI??

A hymned and celebrated superstar in every cricket playing nation on planet earth, this guy keeps challenging every former/ existing great to discover new superlatives to desc...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: BÉLA TARR, I STRUGGLE TO NEGOTIATE

In this personal tribute by Sharad Raj, the author reflects on Béla Tarr’s cinematic legacy, his mastery of time and long take aesthetics, and how his fearless ar...

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Powerful People

POWERFUL PEOPLE: THOSE BASIC VISUAL INSTINCTS

Ravi K. Chandran, among the A-list of superstar technicians of Hindi and south Indian language cinema, has excelled in his metier for 35 years. Usually a man of few words, he ...

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Powerful People

POWERFUL PEOPLE 2025: THOSE WHO REFUSED THE EASY ANSWER

Power, in 2025, did not always announce itself loudly, nor did it seek instant legitimacy. Across cinema, poetry, activism, performance, pedagogy, and cultural memory, The Dai...

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Thought Factory

THOUGHT FACTORY: THINKING SLOWLY IN NOISY TIMES

A year-end reflection on The Daily Eye’s Thought Factory, where writers interrogated art, power, cinema, gender, labour, media, and love—asserting that thinking, w...

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Retroscope

RETROSCOPE: LOOKING BACK AT WHAT ENDURES

A year of remembrance and resistance, where Khalid Mohamed, Monojit Lahiri, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri, Devdutt Trivedi, Utpal Datta and Satyabrate Ghosh revisited cinema’s ...

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TRIS FEBRUARY 2026 EXPLORES CINEMA ART CONSCIENCE

TRIS February 2026 presents exhibitions, film screenings, and conversations in Delhi, hi...

February 4 2026

BOLLYWOOD FAME, FORGOTTEN STARS, CAUTIONARY TALES

Today Mumbai’s film actors have wised up to the fact that fame and fortune don&rsq...

February 3 2026

MARDAANI 3 RETURNS WITH GRIT AND LIMITS

In his review, critic Arnab Banerjee examines how Mardaani 3 revives Shivani Shivaji Roy...

February 2 2026