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Business and Politics

Count your blessings: name them One by One

Roads utterly empty, except for a stray vehicle here and there, I proceeded to drive towards the vet’s clinic. Lucy Diamond needed to see him that very morning and I man...

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Alternative Entertainment

Sabir Masani ki Ajeeb Daastan

Meet a film writer who has been denied his just dues and name in the credits Khalid Mohamed As far as I know, it was the intrepid actor-occasional writer-and-frequent-stockt...

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Alternative Entertainment

A touch of class

Review of Season’s Greetings, a short film which probes sexual identities Khalid Mohamed When the camera lingers on the faces of two women – a mother and a daugh...

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Business and Politics

Invisible – A Photo Essay

Photography: SL Shanth Kumar India is home to 5 million sanitation workers - who clear not just garbage but also sewers and public toilets. For paltry pay, these wo...

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Why not a full-fledged one!

With my father it was different, as blood bonding had taken care of that  connectivity with all those murmurs and mutters he’d come up with, as  he’d sat...

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Alternative Entertainment

Panchayat: Apna Gaon Apna Desh

Three cheers to Panchayat, a binge-worthy series at long last, in these stricken times - Khalid Mohamed A wide-eyed, bushy-tailed young man lands a job as a Panchayat supervi...

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Bollywood

WELCOME TO THE OTHER SIDE

“One can keep wondering about the why’s and the wherefores, but eventually it all boils down to the simple fact that we are not as invincible as we thought we were...

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Looking for hope in these dark times of Corona Pandemic

As India witnessed a surge in corona virus positive cases, a complete lockdown for 21 days was declared from 24th March in the country, since physical distancing is the only w...

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Thought Factory

Try Love

“In this time of lockdown and instability, it would be ridiculous for me to deny my own blanket of privilege and personal self-absorption” - Selina Sheth Should a...

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THAT SHAWL

A short story by – Humra Quraishi, As I was assembling the suitcases, Shams Shah breezed in. Dumped a crate, right at my feet. ‘Your khaansama told me you off to ...

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WHY MOTHERS ECLIPSE FATHERS DAILY

Monojit Lahiri explores why Mother’s Day commands greater emotional resonance than...

June 18 2026

HINDI CINEMA: UNDER HOLLYWOOD’S HAT

Khalid Mohamed recalls the impact (and copycatting) of Hollywood cinema and its gossip j...

June 17 2026

PRAMOD PAWAR HONOURED FOR THEATRE

Prof. Dr. Avinash Kolhe celebrates Sangeet Natak Akademi awardee Pramod Pawar, whose rem...

June 16 2026