Thought Box

BUSINESS: ENTERTAINMENT HIJACKS SALES IN ADVILLE

A sharp look at how advertising today prioritizes entertainment over sales, sparking debate on creativity, strategy, and real business impact. Has the Big ‘E’ Over...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: THROUGH A MASTER’S LENS

Khalid Mohamed in conversation with the celebrated lensman, Rafique Sayed, on the vital essence of photography, on his predilection for black & white images, and on the lo...

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BUSINESS: IS BRANDING YESTERDAY? PASSE? DEAD?

A Radical Take on Branding: Monojit Lahiri endeavours to unravel a new-age, revolutionary, path-breaking philosophy put forth by an ad guru that puts the age-old and much-reve...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: ABOUT PSYCHOANALYTIC MOTIFS

  Devdutt Trivedi critiques David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future (2022), exposing its reliance on symbolic structures that fall short of embodying psychological and p...

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THOUGHT FACTORY: STORIES DIVIDE, YET ALSO UNITE

In a media landscape divided by class and culture, two Indian shows—The Royals and Thukra Ke Mera Pyaar—reveal how fiction can both mirror and bridge a fractured y...

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POWERFUL PEOPLE: THE BIG WORLD OF PRAVESH SIPPY

Khalid Mohamed in conversation with Pravesh Sippy on changing lanes from the big-budget films of his father N.N. Sippy, iconic producer and distributor, to making independent ...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: REMEMBERING RITUPARNO

Gone but forever remembered is Bengal’s – and India’s – late and classy filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh. On his 12th death anniversary, Monojit Lahiri does a...

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KALEIDOSCOPE: REIMAGINING TAGORE – INTIMACY & IDEOLOGY

A bold theatrical reimagining of Tagore’s Ghare Baire, Ghar Aur Bahar explores the fraught intersections of love, ideology, and identity with nuance, restraint, and emot...

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BUSINESS: TOTTENHAM SURVIVE, TRIUMPH, AND RISE

Tottenham Hotspur’s 2024/25 campaign was a dramatic clash of despair and triumph—scraping through Premier League survival while clinching Europa League glory again...

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THOUGHT FACTORY: CENSORSHIP, CINEMA, AND THE COST OF CONSCIENCE

A searing conversation between filmmaker Vinta Nanda and journalist Anna MM Vetticad on censorship, complicity, and conscience—exploring the urgent need to resist hate, ...

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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