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The Incredible Story of India’s First Miss India
Khalid Mohamed pays tribute to the first Miss India (1947), Esther Victoria Abraham, who became a popular actor, the nation’s first woman film producer and a lasting emb...
Read MoreHelplines: Warriors at the forefront
Professionals talk to Monarose Sheila Pereira, about the importance of emotional distress helplines. Doctors, frontline workers and people in general are going throug...
Read MoreOf Unsung COVID Warriors
Mamta Mahadik steps back to look at the work of Harsha Foundation for the BMC sweepers working tirelessly through the Pandemic. Photography: SL Shanth Kumar It is tru...
Read MoreSuch a long journey: Neena Gupta
Balaji Vittal introduces you to Sach Kahun Toh, theatre, film and television actor, and writer, producer and director Neena Gupta. Actor Neena Gupta passed out fr...
Read MoreThe Hairdresser’s Husband: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Vandana Kumar explores how a film like The Hairdresser’s Husband starts as a man’s fetish and ends like a singular love story. In a world where there is n...
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Film historian Dhruv Somani, tracks the once super-successful career of the underappreciated playback-singing career of Hemlata, who inexplicably quit the Bollywood music scen...
Read MoreWhere there is no will, there is violence
Humra Quraishi talks about how polarisation in grassroots India, by the use of state machinery, is spreading violence and fear among minorities. Earlier this week a ...
Read MoreThe Missing Documentary
Khalid Mohamed writes on his documentary on the superstar cinematographer, Ashok Mehta, which is languishing in a hard disk somewhere. There’s a hard disk sitti...
Read MoreThree Colours: Red - A celluloid poem
Mallika Bhaumik reviews Krztysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colours Red and reads the auteur’s mind while elucidating her own thoughts about it. After watching Krzt...
Read MoreThe Pros and Cons of Online Exams
This year too many exams are being conducted online. Educationists talk to Monarose Sheila Pereira about the pros and cons of the same. Dr. (Fr.) Joseph M.T., Assistant Pro...
Read MoreFESTIVALS: QUEER STORIES ILLUMINATE NEW PATHWAYS
A reflection on queer filmmaking, festival curation, and representation at WIFF Mumbai 2...
November 22 2025GENDER: LIVING ALONE, FINDING INNER STRENGTH
AkelaNest by Aparajita Krishna: A reflective, deeply personal exploration of single livi...
November 21 2025TV: TRUTH RISES THROUGH THE DARKNESS
In this review by Monojit Lahiri, a relentless Bengali crime thriller unfolds with raw p...
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