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Powerful People

REMEBERING BOLLYWOOD’S SEXIEST REBEL-STAR!

Junglee, Janwar, Budtameez, Bluff Master, Pagla Kahin Ka, Fan-boy Monojit Lahiri pays tribute to Bollywood’s flamboyant star on his 91st birthday. Everything about Sham...

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Alternative Entertainment

Memories of Underdevelopment

Sharad Raj writes, “Many consider Tomas Alea, the greatest filmmaker to emerge from Cuba and Memories of Underdevelopment is his most well-known film”. Those were...

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Powerful People

KANWALJIT SINGH: Life & Roles!

Aparajita Krishna tells you all about the tall, handsome actor Kanwaljit Singh in this unputdownable interview with him. With a height of 6ft 2 ½ inches, Kanwaljit Sin...

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Thought Factory

STILL FACES RUN DEEP

Kamlesh Pandey harks back ten years and mines into an interview he did with Amitabh Bachchan, to bring his genius to fore and remember that it is timeless, and ageless too. I...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Master: A Documentary

Vinta Nanda chats with Khalid Mohamed on the eve of a screening of his documentary film on Shyam Benegal, at the NCPA auditorium on 13th October 2022 at 630pm.   Wh...

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Thought Factory

The Big Evolution

Khalid Mohamed in conversation with Saif Ali Khan, who has grown from yesterday’s ‘chocolate boy’ to an actor of strength and substance, culminating in the f...

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Powerful People

Hope and Glory

Film historian Dhruv Somani narrates the long and fulfilling journey of Asha Parekh, also known as The Hit Girl who has just been honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award. Sh...

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Business and Politics

Here I was born…

Humra Quraishi shares facts about the displacements of one particular minority community of India in the name of development. In recent years our fellow citizens have been ge...

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FLASHBACK & FLASHIN-FORWARD!

Aparajita Krishna, here, flashbacks and goes forward with Gopi Desai, Podcaster, Actor, Filmmaker and Writer and Suhail Akhtar, Urdu Poet and Writer. Then & now! This art...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Ghost of Flaherty

Thinking in retrospect, it is most likely that it was during the shooting of this sequence that the ghost of Robert Flaherty started to hover around me, writes Ramchandra PN ...

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OSCARS RETURN INDIA ENTRY EMPTY-HANDED AGAIN HOME

India’s 2026 Oscar hopes fade again as its official entry returns home, sparking d...

February 8 2026

BHARAT RANG MAHOTSAV 2026 OPENS MUMBAI STAGE

The 25th Bharat Rang Mahotsav arrives in Mumbai on February 7, celebrating global theatr...

February 7 2026

TWO-CHILD NORM ENDANGERS CHILDREN AND DEMOCRACY

A shocking murder in Maharashtra exposes the dangers of India’s two-child norm, as...

February 6 2026