Thought Box
Kaleidoscope

A Mother’s Metamorphosis

Bhooma Sundararajan introspects on parenting through the experience of watching her own daughter giving birth. My daughter announced her pregnancy in the month of February 20...

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Alternative Entertainment

Visual Instinct

Khalid Mohamed writes on discovering the rule-breaking art of Vishwanath Math on social media in the time of the Coronavirus. The scene right now: No art galleries, no exposu...

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Powerful People

Welcome to Ashok Mishra

The two Hindi films that writer Ashok Mishra is popularly associated with in the cine-goers’ mind are Shyam Benegal’s Welcome to Sajjanpur and Well Done Abba, writ...

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Kaleidoscope

Gemini Ganesan: The Eternal Romantic

Humra Quraishi reviews the book written by journalist - writer Narayani Ganesh, on her father, the Tamil superstar of yesteryears Gemini Ganesan. Title: Eternal Romantic:...

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Business and Politics

Farm Bills: Exciting times for advertising

All the politics around them notwithstanding, the new Farm Bills could open up an entirely new domain of work for advertising and media. Sandeep Goyal explains how. Many year...

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Business and Politics

Avoidable: The 'ageism' bias

With all that is being written in the media these days about ageism, I should not (actually could not) have done all that I did over the years, post turning 30, writes Dr. San...

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Powerful People

Rewinding: Ustad Zakir Hussain

“I had interviewed Ustad Zakir Hussain, years ago in 1992; and he told me what made him emotional on stage once”, writes Humra  Quraishi Winter was at its pe...

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Alternative Entertainment

Clicking London

Vatsal Shah’s photo-essay set in the British capital, where the only constant is change. It’s a megalopolis of change - changes for the better and for the worse. ...

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Powerful People

Salim Arif: His Work of Many Parts

It is a daunting task to undertake summarising Salim Arif’s multifaceted talent and work resume in a few pages, writes Aparajita Krishna.  This article has been an...

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Thought Factory

Gas-lighting: The News Normal

Vinta Nanda analyzes the news media as it stands today and what it can achieve for its mass audiences if it so chooses to do. The news, in layman terms, is the transfer of th...

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FESTIVALS: STORIES THAT AWAKEN THE WORLD

A masterclass on Conscious Storytelling at WIFF Mumbai 2025 explored how cinema can elev...

October 28 2025

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: A STITCH OF KINDNESS

Ajay Govind’s Basanti Tailors, produced by Drishyam Films in association with the ...

October 27 2025

THOUGHT FACTORY: 30 YEARS OF DDLJ & STILL RUNNING

From Eurorail to Sarson Ke Khet: An Ethnography of DDLJ’s Everlasting Romance with...

October 26 2025