Thought Box

Kaleidoscope - Music With Mitch

Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom is one of those all time bestsellers that never goes off the lists. Fans treat it as a guide book for better loving. For those who haven&rs...

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Retroscope - Jagjit Singh- A Sweet Recollection

I don’t recall when I first met the two, Jagjit and Chitra Singh. It must be sometime in the early 1970s, when Chitra came round to our tiny apartment on 29th Road TPS I...

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Kaleidoscope - Countdown To META

The Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards, the only event of its kind in the country, at which the best of Indian Theatre is awarded, following a festival of the shortlisted p...

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Kaleidoscope - A Li'l Bit Of Kindness

Intolerance is the word of the season-- all over the world, people are losing their patience, compassion and that sense of community that makes life worthwhile. What does a bi...

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Rediscovering Hidden Treasures : Hirak Rajar Deshe

The most renowned Indian film maker internationally, doubtless, is Satyajit Ray. His advent with the iconic debut, PatherPanchali (The Song of the Road) heralded an outstandin...

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Dil Ka Haal Sune Dilwala

Growing up in Calcutta gave us grounding in sound middle class values out of which I was constructed. We lived in a four room rented ground floor place, P92 SardarSankar Road....

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Kaleidoscope: Theatre A La Carte

Just a month into the new year, and quite a few noteworthy things have already happened on the theatre scene—Pankaj Kapur returned to theatre with a new play Dopehri, wh...

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The Spectacular Bimal Roy Retro At The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

Extraordinary! Unprecedented! January 16, 2016 ? The grand finale of BRMC?s last awards night ?will be remembered for something that was unscripted. Indeed, completely unexpec...

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Kaleidoscope - Book Lovers’ Books

For bibliophiles, books about book lovers offer an additional thrill…of belonging to a special community that lives its own universe of words. The idea of Nina George&r...

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Silent

Deep inside every woman I have ever known across the many hierarchies that paint my world is vacuum; the result of an endless internal conflict that remains unresolved. The w...

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TRENDING: TIMELESS LIGHT AND LIVING MEMORIES

At Piramal Gallery, NCPA, I revisited Bombay’s cultural past through the lens of t...

October 16 2025

BOLLYWOOD: ARYAN KHAN BREAKS BOLLYWOOD RULES

“I am in love with your wife (Maya)!” — a line from Kabhi Alvida Naa K...

October 15 2025

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: AND THE LEGACY LIVES ON

Khalid Mohamed in conversation with Ramu Aravindan, founder of a Documentation Centre an...

October 14 2025