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Thought Factory
Salman Khurshid’s ‘Triple Talaq: Examining Faith’ - A straightforward yet comprehensive view of a complicated issue?
I’m here and writing about Former Minister of External Affairs and Indian National Congress party leader, Salman Khurshid’s latest book ‘Triple Talaq: Examin...
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The Changing Face of the Shopping Paradiso, London’s Oxford Street
If it’s London, it’s Oxford Street, that manic shopping centre where the stilleto-heeled trot by starving musicians, one of whom asks me, “Where I’m fr...
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The Perils of the Use and Abuse of Social Media
Humans, by nature, have loved to communicate and share stories and views since the beginning of time. Who would have thought even 20 years ago that email and social media will...
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The Ever Self-indulgent Bollywood Marketing
It is well known that in spite of producing the largest number of films in the world, the health of the industry is not very sound. With a success rate of mere 10% there is no...
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Why was the hard-hitting S. Durga ignored at the National Film Awards and other Questions?
Okay so way back in 1985, there was Durgaa, a Hindi film showcasing Hema Malini as the quintessential good wife who becomes an avenging angel. Reason: she is wronged by her mo...
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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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All the World’s a Stage, Not in Mumbai Theatre at Least
Frankly, theatre didn’t prove to be that long-cherished platform to tell a story which was of some value to me – a story about a pre-teen boy who was saved from a ...
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Celebrity Circus and Media
Andy Warhol famously said that everyone in the world would be famous for fifteen minutes. Hyperbole perhaps but in a digitally connected world, fame and notoriety are more in...
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The Disappearing Art of Conversation
Since the emergence of humans on the planet, conversation has been the cornerstone of human civilization. From the initial words exchanged regarding food, predators, danger, j...
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Change and its many manifestations in India
Everyone in the country has a mobile phone. India has more than a billion phones, second only to China. Almost 240 million people have television sets in their homes. However ...
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