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Collateral: Wrestling with the Refugee Crisis

Collateral is an avant-garde approach to storytelling. The narrative takes on lurking shadows and fixing the disjointed pieces to form a connected conglomerate of incidents, w...

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AGNIPARIKSHA: An Ordeal Remembered

Orient Blackswan released the English translation of eminent lawyer and Gandhian Hamid Kureshi’s Gujarati book “Agnipariksha” on 1st April 2018 in New Delhi....

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The Test of Love: Director Sudhir Mishra to make a film on Renu Saluja

Over the years Bollywood has seen directors not only talking openly about their personal lives but also sharing it through their films. To name a few, Mahesh Bhatt’s Zak...

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Can we save the Northern White Rhino from Extinction?

The story of our interaction with the northern white rhino is one of the conservation movement’s saddest tales of recent times. “In the 60s there were 2,500 northe...

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Sharp Satire

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing may be regarded as misfortune. To lose both can be regarded as more like carelessness.” Thus spake Lady Bracknell, the imper...

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The Politicization of Social Media

Back in 2012, a national survey questioned 3,000 young people, ages 15-25 on how they use the Internet, social media and engage in politics. Unlike any prior study on the topi...

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Major Music Festivals sign up for Change

Last year, a BBC study of 14 major UK festivals for the last decade found out that of the 660 headline appearances, only 37 were all-female acts. This year’s Wireless fe...

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Can Children Really Scare You?

There’s something exquisitely dreadful about scary little kids. You don't expect children to be vicious killers—but they’re also not supposed to die young an...

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Headless Women of Hollywood

A movie poster featuring a group of men framed by JUST a woman’s legs or bust or any other body part, except the head and/or face is a common sight. It has become a sigh...

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One Strange Rock: NatGeo's Latest Blockbuster Documentary Series

National Geographic has a history of bringing TV shows to audiences that turn out be an eye-opener. This time they are delivering a fascinating deep dive into the connectivity...

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GENDER: LIVING ALONE, FINDING INNER STRENGTH

AkelaNest by Aparajita Krishna: A reflective, deeply personal exploration of single livi...

November 21 2025

TV: TRUTH RISES THROUGH THE DARKNESS

In this review by Monojit Lahiri, a relentless Bengali crime thriller unfolds with raw p...

November 20 2025

BOLLYWOOD: LOVE, AGE, CHAOS, REPEAT

A witty, uneven yet engaging romantic comedy, De De Pyaar De 2 explores age-gap love wit...

November 19 2025