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Powerful People

Geetanjali Kulkarni: 25 years an Actor

Aparajita Krishna views actor Geetanjali Kulkarni’s life and career through the prism of her cutting-edge work in theatre, films and web-series. Geetanjali Kulkarni own...

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Movies

Baba Baby O…

From surrogacy to single parenting to a May-December romance, Aritra Mukherjee’s film is a classic case of too many themes going nowhere, writes Shantanu Ray Chaudh...

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Kaleidoscope

You’ve come a long way – Baby!

Monojit Lahiri reviews Shobha De’s Lockdown Liaisons and gives it a thumbs up! First, a little background for non-Shobha De watchers: Ever since she pulled the trigger ...

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Alternative Entertainment

Pubali Chaudhuri: Mystery of the blank page!

Aparajita Krishna tells the Genie to grant writer Pubali Chaudhuri her personal wish; also the wish that she ‘continues to learn from the mystery of the blank page&...

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Movies

Spine Chiller Revisited

Film historian Dhruv Somani revisits Jaani Dushman the 1979 multi-starrer blockbuster of Raj Kumar Kohli, which is a major draw even today in the rural sector, the streaming c...

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Business and Politics

This Distance

Humra Quraishi talks about the senselessness of war and its impact on the lives of helpless people – she questions the politics that makes ordinary people suffer so much...

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Powerful People

Rocket Girl

Khalid Mohamed interviews Saba Azad, the multi-faceted actor, dancer, theatre director, singer who made an impact with the series Rocket Boys, performs at rock gigs with her e...

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Bollywood

The uphill struggle to adulthood

A critical analysis of Rima Das’s Bulbul Can Sing (2018) by Dipankar Sarkar. With her third outing, Rima Das has honed a lyrical, realistic cinematic idiom that conside...

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Alternative Entertainment

100 years of Sayed Haider Raza

Teesta Bhandare explores the art of Raza through the lens of the global avant garde. On February 22, 1922, in a sleepy forest town in Madhya Pradesh an infant by the name of ...

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Movies

Abar Bochhor Koori Pore: For old time’s sake

A new Bengali film explores the relationship between five school friends who come together after twenty years. Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri writes about the nostalgia of meeting old...

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FILMMAKER PANKAJ BORA ON REALITY

“The reality is always richer than fiction” — says filmmaker Pankaj Bo...

April 2 2026

FILMMAKER PANKAJ BORA ON REALITY

“The reality is always richer than fiction” — says filmmaker Pankaj Bo...

April 2 2026

INTIMACY & TECHNOLOGY – FRENEMIES??

Monojit Lahiri explores how technology has reshaped intimacy and interpersonal communica...

April 1 2026