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Hollywood

Spielberg Knows How to Hit the Nostalgia Bone Just Right

Steven Spielberg is an extraordinary director. For anyone whose actual childhood has been marked by Steven Spielberg films about childhood—who has watched it emerge and ...

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Retroscope

Love lost in Yesteryear’s Prem Nagar

Prem Nagar – a lovers’ lane – has gone under. That one spot shielded from voyeuristic eyes by untrimmed wild bushes and shrubbery, on the seafront of Malabar...

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Alternative Entertainment

Aparna Nancherla on fighting Depression through Humour

You don't expect introverts and shy people to do stand-up comedy because obviously it involves a lot of public speaking and having conversations with your audience. But Aparna...

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Sustainable Development

Your Chance to Have a Conversation with the Plant World

Ever talked to plants? If not, now's your chance. A new exhibition called "Big Botany: Conversations with the Plant World" opened last week at the Spencer Museum of Art in the...

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Thought Factory

Films: Opportunity in the Crisis

In several of my recent articles I have written about the crisis facing Indian film industry, specially Bollywood. To reiterate a few of the problems again one can talk about ...

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Gender

Women Open up about Sexuality and Pleasure

In November 2016, Chelsea Beck left her job as an assistant curator at The Broad Museum in downtown Los Angeles to pursue a one of a kind “personal project” &mdash...

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Health

Mosaic Art to promote Healing and Well-being

Smashing a hard material to teeny bits, then putting those little shards together again in a way that is beautiful, cohesive and whole is oddly satisfying. I am talking about ...

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TV

Collateral: Wrestling with the Refugee Crisis

Collateral is an avant-garde approach to storytelling. The narrative takes on lurking shadows and fixing the disjointed pieces to form a connected conglomerate of incidents, w...

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AGNIPARIKSHA: An Ordeal Remembered

Orient Blackswan released the English translation of eminent lawyer and Gandhian Hamid Kureshi’s Gujarati book “Agnipariksha” on 1st April 2018 in New Delhi....

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Bollywood

The Test of Love: Director Sudhir Mishra to make a film on Renu Saluja

Over the years Bollywood has seen directors not only talking openly about their personal lives but also sharing it through their films. To name a few, Mahesh Bhatt’s Zak...

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WAR WITHOUT VICTORY ONLY HUMAN COST

An estimated account of the recent US–Israel–Iran conflict reveals staggerin...

April 10 2026

MAHESH DATTANI’S THE MONK AND THE WARRIOR

Avinash Kolhe reviews Mahesh Dattani’s The Monk and the Warrior, a cross-cultural ...

April 9 2026

THE REBEL WITHOUT A...PAUSE

Fearless. Disobedient. Rowdy. Bindaas. Playful. Rooted. Real. Sanjay Bhattacharya is a r...

April 8 2026