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Film Appreciation Course with Arunaraje

Film Institute of India and the National Film Archive of India, Pune are conducting an online Film Appreciation Course after their regular summer course had to be cancelled du...

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Business and Politics

Pragmatic Panchsheel

Alok Jagdhari walks you through why it is important to stay on the path India has followed for foreign policy, which is based upon the principles of Panchsheel, since independ...

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Powerful People

The Master: Soumitra Chatterjee on Satyajit Ray

Even under the uncertainty facing the world at large, following the outbreak of Covid-19, a valiant bid is on in Kolkata to celebrate the centennial year of India’s best...

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Alternative Entertainment

Re-Engineering Culture: Majha House

Preeti Gill, founder of Majha House in Amritsar, tells about the place, which asserts Punjab’s rich history of performance, literature and art. She says, “The idea...

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Business and Politics

News Media: The End..

Geeta Datta, programmer and veteran reporter, views news broadcasting from what goes on inside newsrooms and explains why the media is losing its relevance now. ‘There ...

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Movies

Video Gaga

Film historian Dhruv Somani excavates the exclusive made-for video movies by Nari Hira and other producers, way before the arrival of the streaming channels Long before Netfl...

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Retroscope

Sunil Dutt – 6th June 1929 to 25th May 2005

I had  met  Sunil Dutt  more than  once, writes Humra Quraishi in her piece this week, where she recalls one such time when she interviewed him in Delhi. ...

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Bollywood

Minority Report

Khalid Mohamed writes on the ceaseless ghettoization of Muslim characters in B-town’s mainstream movies, and now web series. The zoom, cut or pan to the Eid moon in the...

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Sustainable Development

Between Fake News and Truth…

In these extraordinary times, like everywhere else in the world, fake news and misinformation are spreading like wildfire around Covid-19 and related issues. Misinformation t...

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Alternative Entertainment

ART SALUTES WORKERS

Khalid Mohamed writes on the imperative need for Indian artists to express  their strong views on the state of nation under lockdown today. News is that artists, stretch...

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CINEMA THAT BREATHES IN STILLNESS

An evocative evening of French and German short films in Mumbai explores stillness, abst...

March 29 2026

A TIMELY DIALOGUE AT IFFD 2026

A powerful panel at IFFD 2026 brings together leading independent filmmakers to examine ...

March 28 2026

BHARATMATA BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE!

Bharatmata cinema hall returns to Mumbai’s Lalbaug, writes Avinash Kolhe, reviving...

March 27 2026