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Gender

GENDER: GENDER | AUTONOMY | 2025 IN REFLECTION

From homes and heartbreaks to cinema, solitude, queer identity and evolving desire, The Daily Eye’s 2025 gender discourse traced how Indians negotiated power, love, labo...

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Movies

MOVIES: WHEN MEMORY BECOMES A COMPANION

When Memory Becomes a Companion is Utpal Datta’s meditative reading of Hamsafar, a silent Marathi short film that transforms an everyday object into a vessel of love, lo...

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Business and Politics

BUSINESS: MARKETS, MEANING AND MORAL RECKONINGS

A Year Through The Daily Eye: A sweeping reflection on The Daily Eye’s Business writing in 2025, where writers tracked power, creativity, inequality and ambition—r...

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Thought Factory

THOUGHT FACTORY: A SILENCE THAT SHOUTS

An incisive reflection by Sohaila Kapur on speech and silence, moving from personal memory to cultural critique, revealing how words manipulate, silence dominates, and communi...

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Retroscope

RETROSCOPE: RETURN TO DILIP KUMAR THE ETERNAL TRAGEDIAN

Celebrating The Memory Of The Actors Actor And The Star Of Stars – Dilip Kumar! Monojit Lahiri’s tribute to the timeless sahib-e-alam. It was his birth anniversary...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: THE MANY WAYS WE LOOKED IN 2025

A sweeping year-end chronicle of cinema, culture, memory, rebellion, and conscience—where filmmakers, critics, and artists came together through The Daily Eye to look de...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: DOING IT MY WAY

Lately, it’s been raining awards and accolades on the path-breaking multi-media achiever. And she has preserved a child-like persona, open to new ideas and projects. For...

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Powerful People

POWERFUL PEOPLE: LISTENING TO LIVES

Journalist, author, translator, and cultural chronicler Sathya Saran reflects on a life shaped by words, music, travel, and discipline—mapping creative legacies from Gur...

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Bollywood

BOLLYWOOD: THE IMMORTAL MAJESTY OF SHOLAY

An Ode to the Eternal Luminescence of Indian Cinema by Arnab Banerjee: A sweeping, deeply personal reflection on Sholay’s timeless power, examining its performances, dia...

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Retroscope

RETROSCOPE: THE FLAME THAT STILL BURNS

When Smita Patil Breathed Her Last On The Midnight Of December 13, 1986, The World Of Cinema In General And Indian Cinema In Particular, Lost A Unique Talent. Remembering The ...

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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