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Mass Entertainment Outrage

From Paatal Lok and Leila to A Suitable Boy and Deepika Padukone’s films, Indian movies and web series face targeted attacks from the outraged right-wing, hell-bent to shape the national narrative to their own terms. Is there a way forward for true creative voices to survive in the mainstream? By Karan Madhok

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SCAM 1992: A Time-Capsule of Crooked Ambition

The true rags-to-riches tale of a stockbroker, Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story is a gripping chronicle of the corrupting power of ambition, as well as an astute commentary on an archaic financial system that both boosted and crippled India’s economy - by Jamie Alter.

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Life in the Bubbles: Dhruvi Acharya’s Pandemic Art

Dhruvi Acharya’s Lockdown series from the exhibition Painting in the Time of Corona provided a glimpse into the way many would feel during the pandemic, inhabiting a surreal, bewildering alternate universe. Priyanka Sacheti interviews the artist on her process and the future of her work.

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Wasp

A poem by Ronald Tuhin D’Rozario: “Its beetroot tongue, interchange / Houses. Maps. Routes. Hormones. / There's a climate building in the chest”

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