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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: THE MANY WAYS WE LOOKED IN 2025
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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: A DEEP DIVE INTO THE SOUL OF CLAY
Kaul’s films were revelations even when the themes were well-known and had ancient roots, like dhrupad and pottery. He avidly hunted for those cycles of time that these ...
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POLITICS: A WINTER OF DESPAIR WRITES SURANYA AIYAR
Humra Quraishi explains what it means to be a member of the minority community in these times and reproduces a part of what Suranya Aiyar said in her statement before going on...
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THOUGHT FACTORY: WHO’S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED??
Monojit Lahiri investigates how deep is deep in extra-marital journeys, in reel and real life. As Shakun Batra’s promos blitzed the box a couple of years ago follo...
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POWERFUL PEOPLE: H-POP & AUTHOR KUNAL PUROHIT
I’m introducing the brilliant mind behind the thought-provoking book "H-Pop," Kunal Purohit, a young explorer of alternative perspectives, writes Vinta Nanda. Photograp...
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POLITICS: JUST KEEP ON LIVING, SAY NOTHING!
Humra Quraishi looks at the events taking place in recent weeks, political and religious, and comments on the systematic silencing of common and privileged people that is taki...
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POLITICS: FLASHBACK TO THE TIMES OF HINDUTVA
The influence of Hindutva politics on democratic and academic institutions in India has raised concerns about the erosion of secularism, threats to freedom of expression, comm...
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KALEIDOSCOPE: HUMRA QURASHI’S BOOK IS A WAKE UP CALL
Humra Quraishi’s book, The Diary of Gull Mohammad - A Kashmiri Muslim boy’s journey from Kashmir to Kerala, is an eyeopener. Once in it, it is unputdownable. It&rs...
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INDEPENDENT FILM: THE STORY OF A YOUNG BOY IN KASHMIR
In conflict-ravaged Kashmir, Adnan, a young boy from a lower middle-class family, stretches himself beyond limits to earn a smile on his blind sister’s face by buying he...
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ART HOUSE: THINKING ABOUT JAANE BHI DO YAARO
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (Just Let It Go, Friends) is a 1983 black comedy directed by Kundan Shah and produced by the NFDC. It is a satire on bureaucracy, the media, the real estate...
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HYPOCRISY AND DOUBLE STANDARDS ARE DESTRUCTIVE
Humra Quraishi elaborates on the double standards of the right-wing government in India, and warns that what is taught in schools to children manifests in harmful ways over th...
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