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Kaleidoscope

Have camera, will travel

Itinerant photographer, Ashis Ghatak, writes on the myriad pleasures of travel photography Sitting on a chaise longue one rainy morning with the newspaper on my lap, I was re...

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Gender

Arun Fulara’s My Mother’s Girlfriend bags KASHISH QDrishti Film Grant 2020

Anjum Rajabali, Arunaraje Patil, Onir, Neeraj and Sridhar Rangayan selected the winner at an online pitching session.  Result for the much anticipated KASHISH QDrishti F...

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Powerful People

Rameshwari wahi jo sab ka man bhaaye

Aparajita Krishna takes us with her on a journey through Rameshwari’s life - from a student of acting to becoming a film star, wife, mother and now a business woman.&nbs...

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Alternative Entertainment

World, beautiful, world

Khalid Mohamed in conversation with photographer Babul Bhatt who focuses on the beautiful sides of cityscapes around the world. He could have been a fashion model, he has tha...

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Sustainable Development

Online Classes: Boon or bane

Educationists and students talk to Monarose Sheila Pereira and discuss the pros and cons of online education. The lockdown has made it mandatory for educational institutes to...

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Movies

That’s Cricket

With the IPL fever on, film historian Dhruv Somani, discusses Bollywood cinema’s takes on India’s favorite sport and pastime. It’s no secret that cricket an...

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Health

Office Pods and the new normal

Dr Anurag Yadav wonders if the employers making policies to work from home, will reduce travel and give themselves more freedom of schedule.  The coronavirus pandemic di...

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Kaleidoscope

A Mother’s Metamorphosis

Bhooma Sundararajan introspects on parenting through the experience of watching her own daughter giving birth. My daughter announced her pregnancy in the month of February 20...

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TV

Such Desperate Measures

Khalid Mohamed reviews the thriller Flat 211, the spy drama London Confidential and more showing currently on the streaming channels. Yet another COVID-19 evening was creepin...

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Signs of the times: Congratulations Ammi!

Humra Quraishi writes, “In the backdrop of the upcoming Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti, I have been wondering how Gandhi would’ve reacted to the Babri Masjid.” She a...

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KASTOORI: CINEMA, DIGNITY AND SELF-RESPECT

Binod Kamble’s film Kastoori begins with a stark scene of cleaning a dirty toilet....

August 18 2026

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