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Powerful People

Roti Bank Foundation: Fighting Hunger

Kulsum Mustafa writes on D Sivanandan’s relentless efforts towards ending hunger and also has a chat with him about his work. A decade after retirement, Maharashtra D...

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Alternative Entertainment

BAISHE SRABON: Dead Poets’ Society

In the series on landmark Bengali films post 2000, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri looks at Srijit Mukherji’s genre-bending noir and thriller. ‘Dedicated to all poets unsu...

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Powerful People

N. N. SIPPY - ACTION!

In a cool chat with Producer Pravesh Sippy and his sister Shabnam Pillai, Aparajita Krishna scans the history of N. N. Sippy Productions from its first film to where the produ...

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Movies

Director’s Cut

Film historian, Dhruv Somani, is in conversation with Saawan Kumar Tak, on how he has romanced the box office. He has donned many hats - a lyricist, producer and a director...

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Festivals

Women Win Culture Cinema Film Festival

Culture Cinema 2021, a unique film festival that celebrates world cultures through the medium of cinema for international audiences, announced Award Winners of the Festival he...

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Gender

Signs of the time: Rape, the weapon of mass destruction

Humra Quraishi comments on the most recent rape of a nine-in-year old girl in the national capital of India and the ruthlessness with which her body was cremated to destroy al...

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Thought Factory

Posters Forever!

Khalid Mohamed, tracks the spiralling demand for nostalgia-exuding vintage Bollywood posters and memorabilia, many of which are sheer artworks.  Posters of the rarest ...

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Human Rights

Legal Eagle: Jamshed Mistry

Vinta Nanda reproduces a conversation she had with the multi-faceted lawyer Jamshed Mistry, a man with a keen sense of what is going around these days. Jamshed Mistry is an e...

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Festivals

KASHISH 2021 Jury: Ritesh Batra and Gauri Shinde

A 12 member jury comprising of National Award winning filmmakers, curators & cinematographer to judge 9 award categories at KASHISH 2021, reports The Daily Eye The 12th e...

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Hollywood

CLASSIC HEIST: Six Films That Define the Genre

For a generation weaned on the high-tech-and-gizmo-aided heist of Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean Eleven or Dom Cobb’s equally SFX-aided ones on ‘dreams and inform...

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PARALLEL LIVES BETWEEN THEATRE & CORPORATE WORLDS

In this candid conversation, interviewer Vinta Nanda speaks with Prakash Vaswani about t...

February 11 2026

OH CALCUTTA: MEMORIES OF A VANISHING CITY

Khalid Mohamed remembers the ‘City of Joy’, a mahanagar steadily losing heri...

February 10 2026

SELF-DISCOVERY SERIES UNITES GENERATIONS WITH CINEMA

At the Self Discovery series of TRIS in Delhi, Saeed Mirza and Dibakar Banerjee engage w...

February 9 2026