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No Entry: Hazards in staging a theatre play in Mumbai

Khalid Mohamed recounts his peril-fraught, one-off experience in staging ‘Kennedy Bridge’, a play on yesteryear’s courtesans. All the world’s a stage;...

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Thought Factory

Don’t cry for Sushant!

Vinta Nanda discusses why in the creative universe, we should feel sorry for ourselves and not for those who have left us.  You’re disturbed, because Sushant ...

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Business and Politics

Tragic Loss: Sushant Singh Rajput

Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide by hanging, at age of 34, sent shockwaves through Bollywood on Sunday afternoon.  The police rushed to his apartment in Bandra. Init...

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Business and Politics

Copy-right-Copy-wrong

Veena Bakshi reveals the flawed system by which our Indian entertainment universe operates; where copyrights holders may as well not be. Two films, both made by the same cele...

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Kaleidoscope

An Interlude

Sathya Saran talks about her journey when writing on Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia and she shares an excerpt from the book she has authored - A Breath of Gold - published by (an...

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Thought Factory

If I were a migrant worker

Vinta Nanda, inspired by a conversation with her friend K’ab, wonders how it would be if we were to be swapped with migrant workers? Images of migrant workers and daily...

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Kaleidoscope

Yosemite: A Travelogue

Bhooma Sundararajan transports you to Yosemite and brings you back from an exhilarating journey from there. My first visit to Yosemite was in 2011 on my 49th birthday. It was...

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Business and Politics

Global Economy to Plunge into Worst Recession since World War II: World Bank

Per capita incomes are expected to decline by 3.6%, which will tip millions of people into extreme poverty this year, the World Bank says in its June 2020 Global Economic...

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Powerful People

The Maestro: Pandit Ravi Shankar

This year – 2020 - is sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar’s birth centenary year, writes Humra Quraishi   He was born on April 7, 1920, in Varanasi/ Benaras, U...

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Powerful People

In Exile: The last years of M.F. Husain

Khalid Mohamed rewinds to an interview with M.F. Husain, the peerless artist, who had to spend his end-years jet-hopping between Doha, Dubai, New York and London. He was rest...

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RETROSCOPE: RETURN TO DILIP KUMAR THE ETERNAL TRAGEDIAN

Celebrating The Memory Of The Actors Actor And The Star Of Stars – Dilip Kumar! Mo...

December 18 2025

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: THE MANY WAYS WE LOOKED IN 2025

A sweeping year-end chronicle of cinema, culture, memory, rebellion, and conscience&mdas...

December 17 2025

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: DOING IT MY WAY

Lately, it’s been raining awards and accolades on the path-breaking multi-media ac...

December 16 2025