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Film historian Dhruv Somani, recalls the Florence Nightingales of Bollywood cinema. The nursing staff has been working relentlessly throughout the pandemic. They are the wo...
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Humra Quraishi explores why even the brave and honest in positions of authority choose to remain silent when they are witness to what is morally wrong. In this battle betwe...
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Khalid Mohamed writes on the influence of the Master of Suspense on Bollywood movies, which was infinitely preferable to blood sprays and mumbo jumbo of today’s desi thr...
Read MoreManush Bhalo Nei: Anupam Roy with Cizzy
Anupam Roy’s new single, featuring young Bengali rapper Cizzy, weaves in the COVID experience with some telling political commentary. The singer-composer duo spoke to Sh...
Read MoreThose magical tours
Rumi Taraporevala travels back in time, to recapture the joy of the iconic Lala Tours of Bombay, conducted by St. Xavier’s High School’s Scout Master Homi Lala. &n...
Read MoreA dog, a boy and a film: Musings on Kala
Janaky Sreedharan reviews the Malayalam film Kala (the unwanted) and raises questions on the obsession with violence and its display on screen in the name of settling certain ...
Read MoreHope and the horizon
Dr. Kishore Madhwani updates the facts on the COVID virus and asserts the need to stay calm while under the pressure. There’s no need to be stressed. Neither can we hid...
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Film historian Dhruv Somani, zeroes in on The Evil Within, the little-seen crime thriller, which had marked the evergreen star’s second bid at international stardom afte...
Read MoreSigns of the times: India’s battle for its soul
Humra Quraishi looks back at the last seven years in India, through the lens of A.G. Noorani’s writings about the RSS and Ruskin Bond’s verse. For several minut...
Read MoreRediscovering a Genius Artist
Khalid Mohamed in conversation with Patrick Bensard, director of the prestigious Cinematheque de la Danse of Paris, now documenting the art of Walter Spies whose life in Bali ...
Read MoreTHE JUST: POLITICS, MORALITY, VIOLENCE
Prof Dr Avinash Kolhe reviews The Just, Albert Camus’s powerful political-moral pl...
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