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Festivals

DOES PEACE STAND A CHANCE IN THE WORLD TODAY?

On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's birthday, which is also celebrated now as the International Peace Day, Monarose Sheila Pereira speaks to professionals to find ou...

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Powerful People

Hope and Glory

Film historian Dhruv Somani narrates the long and fulfilling journey of Asha Parekh, also known as The Hit Girl who has just been honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award. Sh...

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Business and Politics

Here I was born…

Humra Quraishi shares facts about the displacements of one particular minority community of India in the name of development. In recent years our fellow citizens have been ge...

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Thought Factory

FLASHBACK & FLASHIN-FORWARD!

Aparajita Krishna, here, flashbacks and goes forward with Gopi Desai, Podcaster, Actor, Filmmaker and Writer and Suhail Akhtar, Urdu Poet and Writer. Then & now! This art...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Ghost of Flaherty

Thinking in retrospect, it is most likely that it was during the shooting of this sequence that the ghost of Robert Flaherty started to hover around me, writes Ramchandra PN ...

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Festivals

Religious Festivals: Sponsored or Reality Shows?

Today, as we once again step into puja mode in this year of 2022, do we feel somewhere, somehow, a change in the puja celebrations, wonders Monojit Lahiri. Once upon a time P...

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Festivals

KASHISH launches LGBTQ+ OTT platform

\30 Indian LGBTQ+ films available on the pay-per-view platform, reports The Daily Eye Newsdesk KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival has been at the forefront of I...

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Bollywood

The Untold Tragedy

Film historian Dhruv Somani narrates the story of Inder Thakur, a top model and upcoming actor who perished with his wife and child in the mid-air Air-India bomb explosion in ...

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Business and Politics

The Silenced Valley

Can bringing Cinema to the Kashmir Valley settle the wounds and trauma? No, says Humra Quraishi  With the opening of a multiplex in Srinagar, cinema returns to the Kashm...

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Alternative Entertainment

A Requiem For Mayfair Cinema

English movies which essentially meant Hollywood films (Hollywood being the benchmark for “good cinema” catering to the English-speaking elite of city of the nawab...

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BATWARA 1947 REVIEW: SHABANA AZMI

BATWARA 1947 REVIEW: SHABANA AZMI Every nation carries within it a wound that history ...

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