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Health

Of Unsung COVID Warriors

Mamta Mahadik steps back to look at the work of Harsha Foundation for the BMC sweepers working tirelessly through the Pandemic. Photography: SL Shanth Kumar  It is tru...

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Kaleidoscope

Such a long journey: Neena Gupta

Balaji Vittal introduces you to Sach Kahun Toh, theatre, film and television actor, and writer, producer and director Neena Gupta.   Actor Neena Gupta passed out fr...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Hairdresser’s Husband: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Vandana Kumar explores how a film like The Hairdresser’s Husband starts as a man’s fetish and ends like a singular love story.  In a world where there is n...

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Movies

Against All Odds

Film historian Dhruv Somani, tracks the once super-successful career of the underappreciated playback-singing career of Hemlata, who inexplicably quit the Bollywood music scen...

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Business and Politics

Where there is no will, there is violence

Humra Quraishi talks about how polarisation in grassroots India, by the use of state machinery, is spreading violence and fear among minorities.  Earlier this week a ...

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Bollywood

The Missing Documentary

Khalid Mohamed writes on his documentary on the superstar cinematographer, Ashok Mehta, which is languishing in a hard disk somewhere.  There’s a hard disk sitti...

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Alternative Entertainment

Three Colours: Red - A celluloid poem

Mallika Bhaumik reviews Krztysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colours Red and reads the auteur’s mind while elucidating her own thoughts about it. After watching Krzt...

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The Pros and Cons of Online Exams

This year too many exams are being conducted online. Educationists talk to Monarose Sheila Pereira about the pros and cons of the same. Dr. (Fr.) Joseph M.T., Assistant Pro...

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Thought Factory

Disconnected democracy

Gautam Benegal discusses the twin pronged strategy applied by the present union government to establish absolute dominance. Do you see the connection between the advantageo...

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Powerful People

Usha Ganguly: A Curtain-Call

Aparajita Krishna walks you through the rich life of theatre stalwart Usha Ganguly, through Om Pareek’s experience of having worked with her and her theatre company Rang...

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THE JUST: POLITICS, MORALITY, VIOLENCE

Prof Dr Avinash Kolhe reviews The Just, Albert Camus’s powerful political-moral pl...

August 17 2026

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