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Business and Politics

FAIZ, SAHIR AND VERSE

Humra Quraishi revisits two of the best known poets of this  subcontinent, Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Sahir Ludhianvi. Both who were born years ago in the season of spring and ...

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Thought Factory

THE GENTLE HEART

Khalid Mohamed pens a tribute to the peerless artist, printmaker and art teacher Lalitha Lajmi, who passed away last Monday. When Lalitha Lajmi moved on to another realm at t...

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Powerful People

ANJUM RIZVI: FROM BEHIND THE SCENES!

Aparajita Krishna goes back to the past and fast forwards the producer Anjum Rizvi’s life in an interesting conversation with him. Anjum Rizvi is a film-producer of a s...

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Gender

BIG WOMEN IN SCIENCE

The pursuit of knowledge in STEM fields has often been and still is the realm of men, reports The Daily Eye Newsdesk Equal participation of women and girls in the leadership ...

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Festivals

V DAY OR DIL TO PAGAL HAI DAY?

Monojit Lahiri checks out if the V Day is a way of looking at a celebration, or is it a cynical acceptance of a global phenomenon that falls prey to hollow and emotional postu...

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Thought Factory

WE ARE NOT AT PEACE

Humra Quraishi discusses the position of the Urdu language in India, on International Mother Language Day – 21st February. My grasp over my mother tongue, Urdu, is weak...

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Alternative Entertainment

YET ANOTHER STORY BESIDES PATHAAN

Satyabrata Ghosh explores why audiences at large today prefer to watch a franchise of a spy universe over a modern fairty-tale. No, at the outset, let me tell you that I have...

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Business and Politics

IS THE SLOGAN DYING?

Monojit Lahiri questions the relevance of slogans in today’s era, and wonders about its fate in the future. Once upon a time, slogans & advertising were truly the m...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALL ABOUT FRIENDSHIP

Dr. Ajanta Dutt highlights the pathos of a friendship between two boys - an unusual story, Dostojee, filmed in the backdrop of the Babri Masjid mayhem. Dostojee, opened to an...

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Business and Politics

WE ARE SISTERS BORN

Humra  Quraishi recalls important conversations, she has had over the years with various people, twenty-one years after the Gujarat pogrom of 2002 The month of February ...

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BATWARA 1947 REVIEW: SHABANA AZMI

Every nation carries within it a wound that hist...

August 16 2026

SRIDEVI: BOLLYWOOD’S MOST MAGICAL SUPERSTAR  

On her 63rd Birthday, August 13, Monojit Lahiri ...

August 15 2026

WHY WOMEN MUST CLAIM VISIBILITY

 Sushmita Chowdhary explores why women leaders must&n...

August 14 2026