Thought Box

The Favourite Songs of 2018

Around 50 Guardian music writers have picked their favourite songs of the year from UK drill breakthroughs to pure pop anthems and enclosed them all on Spotify and Apple Music...

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Beckett and Apocalypse

Samuel Becket's Waiting For Godot has had several productions in Mumbai (Motley's being the most famous), but Endgame is also considered one of the classic...

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#WCCWiki on a mission to reduce gender bias in Wikipedia

Wikipedia is termed to be the largest global source of information and the fifth most visited website in the world. It was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimm...

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A Light Tale

In his new book, Elevation, Stephen King writes in his own unique way about intolerance and how one man rises above it all in a way the reader would not be able to imagine or ...

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The Men Against Gender Injustice Collective speaks on Sexism in the Music Industry

The Men Against Gender Injustice Collective hosted a music event at Brisbane on Sunday in order to encourage themselves to confront their role in sexism. Leanne de Souza, the ...

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Trust Deficit

A lack of confidence pummels institutions, sours relationships. Trust is one of the cornerstones of human civilization. The Oxford dictionary defines trust as, ‘Firm be...

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Mothers Sing Best

Ishitta Arun, daughter of singer-actress-theatre maker Ila Arun, wanted to establish her own theatre group, Ikigai & Co., and do productions quite different from the ...

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‘Venus Blazing’ celebrates Women Composers of the Past and the Future

The Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance announces its new Venus Blazing, an extraordinary commitment to the music of women composers throughout the next academic ...

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Spare a thought for Lakhs of Unemployed Single-screen Cinema Workers of Bollywood City

As many as two lakh cinema workers - ushers, projectionists, ticket counter clerks, especially – have been rendered unemployed in the last two years, with the ongoing cl...

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The Secret Library

Spanish writer Carlos Luis Zafon has completed his Cemetery of Forgotten Books series with a fourth novel, The Labyrinth of the Spirits, an epic that ...

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BOLLYWOOD: WHEN THE STAR MEETS A MEMORY

This one revisits Shah Rukh Khan’s early days through Monojit Lahiri’s recol...

November 5 2025

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: WHEN PHANTOM INDIA WAS GHOSTED

Khalid Mohamed assesses the now accessible 1969 documentary, Phantom India, helmed by th...

November 4 2025

TV: WHEN FRAGRANCE BECAME THE TEACHER

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

November 2 2025