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Powerful People

Mahishasur Marddini: Endless Night…

Filmmaker Ranjan Ghosh speaks to Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri about his soon-to-be-released film… It is instantly intriguing when a director calls his film ‘a letter o...

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Business and Politics

Nothing is funny in one India

Humra Quraishi remembers what Zakia Jafry had once said to give context to the violence spreading across India today and why there is silence surrounding it. A country withou...

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Alternative Entertainment

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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Alternative Entertainment

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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Business and Politics

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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Business and Politics

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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Kaleidoscope

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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Business and Politics

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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Powerful People

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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Business and Politics

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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DELHI RECLAIMS CINEMA AND CREATIVE DIALOGUE

Anchored by Artistic Director Vani Tripathi Tikoo’s powerful reflection, IFFD 2026...

March 25 2026

HUSAIN’S JOURNEY THROUGH HIS MUSES

That Search For A Muse: M.F. Husain’s Lifelong Quest for Inspiration: Khalid Moham...

March 24 2026

WAR AND PEACE IN CONFLICT

In an age of shifting power, contested truths, and invisible wars, this reflective essay...

March 23 2026