Thought Box
Business and Politics

Denial: In the Industry of Entertainment

Actor and Executive Committee (EC) member of CINTAA Ayub Khan highlights a challenge confronting the Hindi television industry since a long time. When daily soap operas were ...

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Business and Politics

Brotherhood of man and woman

Amit Behl walks us through the huge impact that the COVID-19 crisis has had on the film and television industry and how the fraternity has rallied together to help daily wagew...

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Powerful People

Scent of Music: AR Rahman

Khalid Mohamed rewinds to one of his chatty conversations with the Mozart of Madras. When it comes to film music, I  can’t think beyond A.R. Rahman. He may have ex...

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Kaleidoscope

Solace: In the time of the Coronavirus

Abhinav Krishan, a New Delhi corporate executive, writes on why he fled to the hills close to Dehradun, to commune with nature, wildlife and resilient villagers. Currently, t...

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Alternative Entertainment

Cinema of Resistance

Reema Moudgil walks us through some compelling cinema over the last seventy years of India’s independence, which has chronicled resistance of the oppressed against their...

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Kaleidoscope

The Subtle Dance of Creation

Prasantanu Mohapatra takes you along with him while reminiscing the making of this stunning short film in the lonely campus of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), w...

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Powerful People

Politically Left Handed: Subhashini Ali

Vinta Nanda chats with Subhashini Ali about why after a long time and now in the times of COVID-19, when all other politics seems unsure, Left ideology of serving the poor is ...

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Kaleidoscope

Film Appreciation Course with Arunaraje

Film Institute of India and the National Film Archive of India, Pune are conducting an online Film Appreciation Course after their regular summer course had to be cancelled du...

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Business and Politics

Pragmatic Panchsheel

Alok Jagdhari walks you through why it is important to stay on the path India has followed for foreign policy, which is based upon the principles of Panchsheel, since independ...

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Powerful People

The Master: Soumitra Chatterjee on Satyajit Ray

Even under the uncertainty facing the world at large, following the outbreak of Covid-19, a valiant bid is on in Kolkata to celebrate the centennial year of India’s best...

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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

TRENDING: A SYMPHONY OF MODERN MASTERS

Step into a luminous celebration of India’s modern art legacy, where Raza, Gaitond...

October 31 2025