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The Indian Screen: Myth and Reality
Farrukh Dhondy traces the evolution of Indian storytelling from early days, when stories travelled by word-of-mouth, to now, as emerging technologies enable storytellers to be...
Read MoreThe magical language of Gulzar





Juhi Saklani looks at the way filmmaker, poet, lyricist and writer Gulzar creates language and immortalizes his words by making them unforgettable in the minds of his fans. "...
Read More‘Having a blast’ is a very ordinary thing to do!
How often have we all said, “Hey, let’s have a blast”, or, “What a blast we had last night”, writes Vinta Nanda. When a friend, sibling, or an a...
Read MoreDisillusionment to anger: A tale of two Vijays
It’s the week of two ‘Vijays’, Guru Dutt and Amitabh Bachchan - the former is remembered on his death anniversary and the latter, celebrated by one and all o...
Read MoreMein hoon PIO!
Farrukh Dhondy observes Indian media in foreign countries and the hype it creates over events there, however, concluding that most global Indian achievers would not have won l...
Read MoreThe sky is not the limit: Syed Asad Abbas
Langston Hughes said, “Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly” and MC Abbas lives by these words, writes Vinta Nanda I...
Read MoreCelebrating Bachchan!
It’s his 79th birthday on the 11th October, and S M M Ausaja writes that It’s not easy to chronicle India’s most famous and popular celebrity on whom reams a...
Read MoreSigns of the time: The truth is still ALIVE!
Humra Quraishi looks at the way in which Indian society decays under merciless authoritarian governance Let us stop focusing on the horrific happenings taking place in ...
Read MoreThe art of Gaganendranath Tagore
At the height of darkness comes the first stirrings of dawn - a renaissance in the arts, literature and social life. It is against this backdrop that we need to evaluate the w...
Read MoreTaboo Love and the Sensibility of Agnès Varda
Her cinema played with subversive and controversial subjects even as she kept up her engagement with the political environment of her times intact, writes Vandana Kumar My fi...
Read MoreTHE JUST: POLITICS, MORALITY, VIOLENCE
Prof Dr Avinash Kolhe reviews The Just, Albert Camus’s powerful political-moral pl...
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BATWARA 1947 REVIEW: SHABANA AZMI Every nation carries within it a wound that history ...
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