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Good Luck: A Documentary Showcasing the Struggles of Miners

Ben Russell—filmmaker, artist, curator—challenges conventions of documentary representation from within to produce intense, hypnotic, and at times, hallucinating e...

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Aamir Khan’s Paani Foundation to make Maharashtra Drought-Free

Several villages in drought-prone districts like Aurangabad, Sangli, Satara, Dhule, and Jalna have been facing a severe shortage of drinking water since years. The situation w...

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Listen or End up Amidst the Noisemakers. - Ganesh Acharya

"I have never considered myself to be a 'Guru'. I am still a student and I always will be”, revealed the dance maestro, Ganesh Acharya on 6 April 2018 at the cultural hu...

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‘Phubbing’ Severely Disrupts Personal Relationships

Picture this. You are amongst a group of people, conversing. 5 minutes into the conversation someone pulls out their phone and starts texting or checking their Instagram feed....

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Pride in Art to Launch the Vancouver Queer Art Gallery

What is a mark? The Queer Arts Festival ask a simple question. In a settler colonial society, we have a very solidified perception of what “counts” as worthy of ar...

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Spielberg Knows How to Hit the Nostalgia Bone Just Right

Steven Spielberg is an extraordinary director. For anyone whose actual childhood has been marked by Steven Spielberg films about childhood—who has watched it emerge and ...

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Aparna Nancherla on fighting Depression through Humour

You don't expect introverts and shy people to do stand-up comedy because obviously it involves a lot of public speaking and having conversations with your audience. But Aparna...

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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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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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THOUGHT FACTORY: CELEBRITIES AND RIGHT TO PRIVACY

From Mystique to Masses: How Modern Media Transformed Stardom into Spectacle. Monojit La...

November 26 2024

POLITICS: A NATION AT CROSSROADS AND APATHY

India stands at a crossroads, grappling with economic disparity, political polarization,...

November 24 2024

GENDER: HOW PATRIARCHY SILENCES RESISTANCE

Patriarchy persists by co-opting privileged voices, masking systemic exploitation in ind...

November 23 2024