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Environment

Aarey Wah!

The government's decision to shift the Metro car shed has met with cheers from environmentalists and activists. These torchbearers speak to Monarose Sheila Pereira about their...

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Kaleidoscope

Making Magic: Nilakshi Sengupta

Vinta Nanda time travels with Nilakshi Sengupta, the author of the book series, TINA AND HER MAGIC KETTLE Nilakshi Sengupta is a filmmaker by profession and a dreamer by pass...

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Business and Politics

Bollywood Rebooted

Authentic, the one word, which describes Diljit Dosanjh better than any other, writes Dr Sandeep Goyal Why? Because, Dosanjh is the first Sikh actor to wear a turban on scre...

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Thought Factory

Easy Riders

Rumi Taraporevala narrates his adventures on two-wheelers with his buddies down the roads of Mumbai topped by a cross-country trip to South India during the good old bygone de...

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Movies

Where heroines dare

Film historian, Dhruv Somani, writes on leading ladies who have donned male garbs to assert gender neutrality and equality  Javed Akhtar, would often joke, that there wa...

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Human Rights

Signs of the times: Anthems of Resistance

Humra Quraishi questions the idea of human rights in times when basic things like food security are a distant possibility.  On this Human Rights Day, the 10th of Decembe...

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TV

Blow hot, blow Coolie

Khalid Mohamed sneaks a peek at the trailer of Coolie No. 1… and finds mega-relief in Darbaan and Mank. For better or worse, David Dhawan sir’s 45th alleged la...

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Gender

The World Bank: Raising the bar on preventing GBV

Gender-based violence (GBV), including sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (SEA-SH), is an unacceptable violation of human values. The impacts of these actions on surviv...

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Trending

Is Conscious AI & Smart Robots Possible?

Even the most advanced Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have no real understanding of what they are really doing, writes Dr. Anurag Yadav Web Searches, Google Translate,...

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Business and Politics

The Storm In A Teacup

Dr. Sandeep Goyal puts down his thoughts on the recent developments in the F&B industry after FSSAI's 'Eat Right India' campaign angered The Coffee and Tea boards in the c...

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ROMANCE ZINDABAD OR DRAMABAZI KI JAY

Monojit Lahiri checks out the real drama behind this momentous day and checks out all th...

February 12 2026

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