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Claude Chabrol and The Poetics of Murder
My first exposure to the ‘French New Wave’, La Nouvelle Vague, was through Claude Chabrol’s Violette Nozière (1978). My admiration of the director gre...
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Soumitra Chatterjee: The Legend Lives On
Legendary actor Soumitra Chatterjee passed away on 15 November 2020. To mark the first anniversary, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri writes about a forthcoming book on the thespian, Sou...
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Hinduism, not Hindutva, was Nehru’s idea of India
Let us not be in any illusion. Being complacent basis the belief that there’s any sensitivity left in the discourse would be wrong, writes Humra Quraishi Half truths do...
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Scripting doomsday!
In the last few years, which were bedevilled with ambivalence, ambiguity and plain misunderstandings, statements of people in power or celebrities were deliberately distorted ...
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A Life in Translation: Gita Krishnankutty
Gita Krishnankutty is a name inextricably intertwined with the history of Malayalam translations into English, writes Janaky Sreedharan Even before translation be...
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Signs of the Time: Call of the Valley
This week Humra Quraishi looks into the way Kashmiri youth and their future is impacted due to communal politics in the Valley and outside too. First things first, sal...
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Ritu Nanda’s memoir by Sathya Saran
Being Ritu Nanda: The Unforgettable Story of Ritu Nanda was released recently, here’s the writer Sathya Saran in conversation with Vinta Nanda, along with an excerpt fro...
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Signs of the time: For God’s Sake, Be Human!
This week Humra Quraishi questions politicians and lays out bare facts – about human rights and political mischief that vitiates the atmosphere between communities - whi...
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Game Changer, Marketer, Entertainer, Interpreter: The Film Critic
Monojit Lahiri investigates through the incisive commentary of critics as well as filmmakers, what film reviews and film criticism is all about. Let’s face it. India is...
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‘The Poetic Minimalism’ of Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) is unarguably the most known face of Iran on the map of World cinema, writes Vandana Kumar After seeing not just a couple of his films, bu...
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