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Business and Politics

Invisible – A Photo Essay

Photography: SL Shanth Kumar India is home to 5 million sanitation workers - who clear not just garbage but also sewers and public toilets. For paltry pay, these wo...

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Alternative Entertainment

Panchayat: Apna Gaon Apna Desh

Three cheers to Panchayat, a binge-worthy series at long last, in these stricken times - Khalid Mohamed A wide-eyed, bushy-tailed young man lands a job as a Panchayat supervi...

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Thought Factory

Try Love

“In this time of lockdown and instability, it would be ridiculous for me to deny my own blanket of privilege and personal self-absorption” - Selina Sheth Should a...

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Thought Factory

Not the Mumbai I know

“All of man's achievements and endeavors will be brought to naught because of his greed to takeover and tame nature. Hunt down its creatures”. Binit Tanna I had...

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Thought Factory

Iron in the soul

“Meet Manohar Mhatre, the eminent artist who was with the legendary Progressive Art Group, but has never hankered after fame or money” - Khalid Mohamed In a chunk...

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Powerful People

The Legend of Siddharth

I wanted to interview Siddharth for The Daily Eye for some time now and although he was reluctant and shy, I managed to corner him the other day. I wanted the world to know ho...

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Thought Factory

Saluting Akbar Padamsee, an artist and a beautiful mind

It was with a tentative sense of bravado that I had approached Akbar Padamsee, supremo artist, for the use of one of his brilliant metascapes – as the backdrop of a thea...

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Powerful People

This Mercurial Man Amit Khanna: Man of 2020

I send him a list of questions by mail and request him to take his time to answer them and I also added to my note, that it’ll be great if I am able to publish this piec...

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Thought Factory

All that’s wrong with the discourse surrounding Rape

In the aftermath of the brutal rape and murder of a Hyderabad Vet and the encounter of the accused that followed, there has come to the fore another flawed discourse about rap...

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Kaleidoscope

Witchy Brew

In common usage, the word chudail describes an aggressive or quarrelsome woman—could be said to be the Indian equivalent of bitch.  But the origins of the chudail (...

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TV: WHEN FRAGRANCE BECAME THE TEACHER

In its first edition, Surabhi Diaries by Suhail Tatari revisits the beloved 1990s TV phe...

November 2 2025

KALEIDOSCOPE: THROUGH CONFLICT, TRUTHS STAND TALL

My own encounter with the book has been a unique reader-experience, writes Aparajita Kri...

November 1 2025

BUSINESS: REFLECTIONS OF ADVERTISING’S MR. BHARAT!

From Kolkata’s colonial hangover to the rise of brand Bharat, this reflection, by ...

October 31 2025