Thought Factory

Hear The Poor Cry

A Very significant document has come out. It is a letter from Pope Francis addressed to everyone on this planet. Pope Francis is head of the world’s largest religions c...

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Of A Biased Media, Yakub Memon And Baby Crows!

So as I walked into the elevator that would take me to my apartment on the 7th floor after work last evening, in walked with me a lady well over 75 years of age. I know her w...

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An Elite Cafeteria Or A Canteen For Everyone?

June 30, 2015, 9.15 pm I heaved a sigh of relief as I put down my purse, lunchbox, umbrella and some vegetables I had picked up on the way home from work....

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Why Mahesh Bhatt Worked on Hamari Adhuri Kahani Without Remuneration

“I didn’t take a penny for my work on Hamari Adhuri Kahani!”– Mahesh Bhatt A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as...

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Technology, Health And Media- Searching For Breakthroughs

August 1994- Sitting in a state transport bus on way to a remote village in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, I was marvelling at the greenery all around.  There we...

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Techno-Visionaries And The Philosopher’s Stone

“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.” – Kurt Vonnegut It was in ...

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Technology Matters!

Technology has been heralded as the tool that will expedite the entire evolutionary process of human beings. Technology has boomed over the last 40-45 and has taken over multi...

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TECHNOLOGY AND THE MEDIA

“Give me liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties”, thundered John Milton in his famous Areopagitica, his essays ...

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VICTIMS, WOMEN & THE LANDED VOICELESS

So here?? the thing! As I entered home this evening, my housekeeper Leela Lhama opened the door, as usual. She normally takes my laptop bag from my hand and walks ahead of m...

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THE RITE OF PASSAGE

“Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains” quoted Jean Jacques Rousseau, the famous French philosopher. The history of mankind has been the history of evolu...

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THE STING BEHIND BOLLYWOOD PAPARAZZI

Khalid Mohamed, without being judgmental, reports on the love-hate relationship of the c...

May 12 2026

MAHOGATHA REVIVES MAHASHWETA DEVI’S LEGACY

Prof Dr Avinash Kolhe reviews Mahogatha, a powerful Hindi theatrical adaptation of three...

May 11 2026

DAADI KI SHADI REVIEW ANALYSIS

Arnab Banerjee reviews Daadi Ki Shadi, examining its progressive premise, hesitant story...

May 10 2026