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BOLLYWOOD: TRIUMPH THAT OUTLIVES THE WAR

A reflective, humanist reading of Sriram Raghavan’s Ikkis, Arnab Banerjee examines war beyond valor, locating memory, grief, and shared humanity in a film that resists s...

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TELEVISION: HOW I MET SATYAM, TRULY

A moving, intimate remembrance by Sharad Raj of writer Satyam Tripathi—his brilliance, arrogance, tenderness, creative agony, artistic integrity, and friendship—se...

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BOLLYWOOD: AKSHAYE KHANNA, ECHOES OF BRANDO

Monojit Lahiri investigates how Akshaye Khanna’s fiercely private stardom, selective choices, artistic integrity and resistance to celebrity culture invite an intriguing...

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POWERFUL PEOPLE 2025: THOSE WHO REFUSED THE EASY ANSWER

Power, in 2025, did not always announce itself loudly, nor did it seek instant legitimacy. Across cinema, poetry, activism, performance, pedagogy, and cultural memory, The Dai...

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THOUGHT FACTORY: THINKING SLOWLY IN NOISY TIMES

A year-end reflection on The Daily Eye’s Thought Factory, where writers interrogated art, power, cinema, gender, labour, media, and love—asserting that thinking, w...

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RETROSCOPE: LOOKING BACK AT WHAT ENDURES

A year of remembrance and resistance, where Khalid Mohamed, Monojit Lahiri, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri, Devdutt Trivedi, Utpal Datta and Satyabrate Ghosh revisited cinema’s ...

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FESTIVALS: YEAR-END REFLECTION ON FESTIVALS IN INDIA

A year-end reflection on how festivals became classrooms, archives, shelters and movements—through writings by Utpal Datta, Vinta Nanda, Sohaila Kapur, Monojit Lahiri, a...

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BOLLYWOOD: MEMORY, MEANING AND THE MOVING IMAGE

A year-end reflection on Hindi cinema through The Daily Eye’s seasoned critics—where nostalgia met urgency, spectacle met conscience, and Bollywood revealed itself...

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TRENDING: A YEAR THAT CHOSE MEANING OVER NOISE

2025 was a year when activism, cinema and conversations around music quietly—but decisively—shaped what truly mattered. At The Daily Eye, the stories that trended ...

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POWERFUL PEOPLE: NOT A MAN’S WORLD ANYMORE

Huma Qureshi, who believes that Mumbai’s show business isn’t a man’s exclusive world anymore, has belted out uber-powerful performances in the shows Delhi Cr...

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JJ SCHOOL’S FREEDOM ART REVEALED

Prof. Dr. Avinash Kolhe explores how JJ School of Art students captured India’s fr...

August 11 2026

OHH MY DOG: LOVE, LOYALTY, LOSS

Canine Loyalty Meets A Darker Tale of Loss, Courage and Justice. Arnab Banerjee reviews ...

August 10 2026

INDEPENDENT CINEMA FINDS ITS AUDIENCE

At WIFF 2025, Kabeer Khurana, Deepa Gahlot and Siddharth Kak examined independent cinema...

August 9 2026