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Creativity
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Literature
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31 May 2026
“I wanted the book to ‘sound’ and ‘feel’ like the internet” – Ria Chopra on NEVER LOGGED OUT
31 May 2026
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27 May 2026
The Twilight Zone Between Page and Life
27 May 2026
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24 May 2026
A Nation’s Song: The Early History of “Vande Mataram”
24 May 2026
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22 May 2026
Q&A: Fiction writer Salini Vineeth discusses the experiences and inspirations that shaped her journey
22 May 2026
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15 May 2026
Rage, Rebellion, and the Beautiful Asymmetry of Human Imperfection
15 May 2026
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11 May 2026
Othering Mothers
11 May 2026
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25 Apr 2026
Surrealistic Icarus: Gopal Lahiri’s SELECTED POEMS
25 Apr 2026
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7 Apr 2026
Stories of Wisdom and Healing: An Interview with Faiqa Mansab
7 Apr 2026
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21 Feb 2026
Found in Translation: K.M. Munshi’s ‘Unfortunate Woman’
21 Feb 2026
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10 Feb 2026
A Call for a Postcolonial Education Revolution
10 Feb 2026
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19 Jan 2026
India’s AI Governance Guidelines are here—But what of the Publishing Sector?
19 Jan 2026
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14 Jan 2026
The Politics of Female Longing in Fire and “Lihaaf”
14 Jan 2026
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27 Dec 2025
“Storytelling Saves My Life Every Day” – An Interview with Sanjana Ramachandran
27 Dec 2025
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20 Dec 2025
The Lunar Learning
20 Dec 2025
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18 Dec 2025
The City That Remains: Guwahati, and the Poetry it Inspires
18 Dec 2025
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11 Dec 2025
“Revolutionary literature requires revolutionary politics”: An Interview with Meena Kandasamy
11 Dec 2025
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9 Dec 2025
The Storm and the Storyteller: Arundhati Roy’s MOTHER MARY COMES TO ME
9 Dec 2025
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2 Dec 2025
Innocence Lost: Sarvesh Wahie’s Poetic Lament for Mussoorie
2 Dec 2025
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21 Oct 2025
“Liberate poetry from the definition of poetry itself”: An Interview with Madhu Raghavendra
21 Oct 2025
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9 Oct 2025
Stitching Love Stories from a Torn Land: Mehak Jamal’s LOAL KASHMIR
9 Oct 2025
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6 Oct 2025
A portrait of Delhi in-between: liminal, restless, and uncertain
6 Oct 2025
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3 Oct 2025
A Sensitive and Essential Partition Story—for Children
3 Oct 2025
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27 Sept 2025
The Dead Authors Society: Pritam, Manto, and the Betrayal of Posthumous Publishing
27 Sept 2025
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1 Sept 2025
A Manual for Memory: The Poetry of Meena Kandasamy
1 Sept 2025
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25 Aug 2025
All the Lives Syeda Ever Lived: An Interview with Neha Dixit
25 Aug 2025
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14 Aug 2025
‘I have exiled my heart; I loved across boundaries’—An excerpt from Arshi Javaid’s YAADGAH: MEMORIES OF SRINAGAR
14 Aug 2025
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10 Aug 2025
Girl, Untethered
10 Aug 2025
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27 Jul 2025
A Gothic Novel with An Indian Twist
27 Jul 2025
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29 Jun 2025
The Ache of Missed Chances: Ammar Kalia’s A PERSON IS A PRAYER
29 Jun 2025
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14 Jun 2025
Postcards from a Betrayed Island
14 Jun 2025
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5 Jun 2025
Nalanda: The Memory of a Civilization
5 Jun 2025
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2 Jun 2025
A Completely Human AI-Generated Reading List for the Indian Summer
2 Jun 2025
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12 May 2025
“The more opposition I get, the more energy I get” – An Interview with Sudeep Chakravarty
12 May 2025
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3 May 2025
The Revolution Will Be Commodified: Gyan Chaturvedi’s THE MADHOUSE
3 May 2025
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12 Apr 2025
Hinduism Outside the Box: A Conversation with Manu Pillai
12 Apr 2025
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7 Apr 2025
Poetry as Ritual Magic: Rajorshi Patranabis’s GOSSIPS OF OUR SURROGATE STORY
7 Apr 2025
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3 Apr 2025
Burrow of the Mind: A response to Amit Shankar Saha’s poetry in ETESIAN::BARAHMASI
3 Apr 2025
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20 Feb 2025
The Divine Lens: A Biography of Raghu Rai
20 Feb 2025
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14 Feb 2025
Where do we find a story? An interview with Snehaprava Das
14 Feb 2025
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25 Jan 2025
Heer, Ranjha, and Haroon Khalid’s Infinite Story of Love
25 Jan 2025
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22 Dec 2024
TEN INDIAN CLASSICS: Selections from ‘Selected Ghazals and Other Poems’ by Mir Taqi Mir
22 Dec 2024
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9 Dec 2024
Calcutta’s Chromosome, Hidden in Plain Sight
9 Dec 2024
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5 Dec 2024
BLASPHEAR by Sohail Rauf: Religion, Fear, and the Cost of Silence
5 Dec 2024
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2 Dec 2024
Gopal Lahiri’s Poetry of Motion
2 Dec 2024
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20 Nov 2024
The Mathematical Values of Feeling Adrift
20 Nov 2024
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1 Nov 2024
A ‘Spicy’ Feast of Fantasy
1 Nov 2024
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19 Oct 2024
The Profound Metaphors of Inner Turmoil in Aparna Sanyal’s INSTRUMENTS OF TORTURE
19 Oct 2024
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16 Oct 2024
Voices of a Generation: An Interview with A.M. Gautam on INDIAN MILLENNIALS
16 Oct 2024
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14 Oct 2024
Down to EARTHA: Vinita Agrawal’s Poetic Conversation with Nature
14 Oct 2024
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12 Sept 2024
The City Must Die Before It’s Reborn: Varun Thomas Mathew’s THE BLACK DWARVES OF THE GOOD LITTLE BAY
12 Sept 2024
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18 Aug 2024
“I surrendered to the chaos”: An Interview with Tashan Mehta, author of MAD SISTERS OF ESI
18 Aug 2024
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9 Aug 2024
Rainbows on the Silver Screen
9 Aug 2024
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3 Aug 2024
“We All Share Human Experiences” – An Interview with K. Vaishali
3 Aug 2024
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16 Jul 2024
Celestial Broadcasts
16 Jul 2024
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10 Jul 2024
In the Unifying Language of Verse
10 Jul 2024
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1 Jul 2024
Obsession and Namelessness in Devibharathi’s THE SOLITUDE OF A SHADOW
1 Jul 2024
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27 Jun 2024
A Way of ‘Happening’: Amitava Kumar’s THE YELLOW BOOK
27 Jun 2024
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15 Jun 2024
“Sometimes silence works”: Words and Withdrawals in Kiriti Sengupta’s Oneness
15 Jun 2024
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19 May 2024
Art, Defanged
19 May 2024
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13 May 2024
Who Chooses Whom? The Book Buyer’s Conundrum
13 May 2024
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8 May 2024
A Chronicle of Mob Violence, Transgressions, and Social Media
8 May 2024
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4 May 2024
“I realized HURDA cannot be one person’s story”—An interview with Atharva Pandit
4 May 2024
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22 Apr 2024
Stepping Beyond the Boundaries: An Interview with Tishani Doshi
22 Apr 2024
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17 Mar 2024
Survival is an act of defiance
17 Mar 2024
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11 Mar 2024
In Our Own Voices: Queer Representation at the International Kolkata Book Fair
11 Mar 2024
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6 Mar 2024
“I Embrace My Bitterness” - An Interview with Abhishek Anicca
6 Mar 2024
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28 Jan 2024
To Live in a Language: An interview with Sumana Roy
28 Jan 2024
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5 Jan 2024
How Indian Publishers Pushed for Greater Diversity in 2023
5 Jan 2024
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26 Dec 2023
Dispossession and Discomfort in Vivek Shanbhag’s SAKINA’S KISS
26 Dec 2023
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19 Dec 2023
Ranjit Hoskote’s Shimmering Lights
19 Dec 2023
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22 Nov 2023
A Bombay That Demands More
22 Nov 2023
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15 Oct 2023
A Synthesis of Physics and Poetry
15 Oct 2023
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1 Oct 2023
Mightier than the Bullet: The Writings of Julio Riberio
1 Oct 2023
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23 Sept 2023
Arundhati Roy: A Troublemaker Needed for our Troubled Times
23 Sept 2023
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11 Sept 2023
Revolution on the Airwaves: An Account of India’s Tumultuous Radio History
11 Sept 2023
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14 Jul 2023
Comings and Goings: On the beauty of Amitabha Bagchi’s HALF THE NIGHT IS GONE
14 Jul 2023
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11 Jul 2023
A Compassionate Dissent: The poetry of Madhu Raghavendra
11 Jul 2023
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30 Jun 2023
THE MENDICANT PRINCE: A Women-centric retelling of the Bhawal Sannyasi Case
30 Jun 2023
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11 Jun 2023
A Civilization and its Stories: Salman Rushdie’s VICTORY CITY
11 Jun 2023
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18 Apr 2023
An Entwined Trajectory of Bombay and a Boy
18 Apr 2023
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25 Mar 2023
SHADOW CITY and ORIENTING: On the Road with Two Indian Women Across Asia
25 Mar 2023
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18 Feb 2023
“Translation Is a Continuum” – An Interview with Daisy Rockwell
18 Feb 2023
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21 Jan 2023
An Interview with ‘The Guysexual’—Aniruddha Mahale Gets Out
21 Jan 2023
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19 Jan 2023
The Undying Muse: Nivedita Dey’s LARKSPUR LANE
19 Jan 2023
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10 Dec 2022
A Poetic Clarion Call to the Feminine Presence—Nabina Das’ ‘Anima’
10 Dec 2022
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25 Oct 2022
Tales from a Bloody Baisakhi
25 Oct 2022
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16 Sept 2022
Art Against the Algorithm: Vauhini Vara’s THE IMMORTAL KING RAO
16 Sept 2022
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10 Sept 2022
The Idyllic Indian Village, Interrupted
10 Sept 2022
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2 Sept 2022
Literary Reflections: Stories from India and Pakistan in THE OTHER IN THE MIRROR
2 Sept 2022
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27 Aug 2022
No one an outsider in the holy city
27 Aug 2022
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13 Aug 2022
A Forgotten Rebellion: The Royal Navy’s Mutiny of 1946
13 Aug 2022
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8 Aug 2022
Bleeding Past the Taboos: A new anthology on menstrual health in South Asia
8 Aug 2022
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4 Aug 2022
By the doorways of womanhood: The poetry of Kashiana Singh
4 Aug 2022
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10 Jul 2022
The Burning Embers of Petrofiction: Ilyas Ahmed Gaddi’s FIRE AREA
10 Jul 2022
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5 Jul 2022
In THE NUTMEG’S CURSE Amitav Ghosh gives voice to our ailing planet
5 Jul 2022
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6 Jun 2022
Authors of The Other: Social Realism in Indian Fiction
6 Jun 2022
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29 May 2022
Priya: The Brown-Skinned Supergirl to the Rescue
29 May 2022
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21 Apr 2022
The Ever-Moving Wheel: G.N. Devy on the Mahabharata
21 Apr 2022
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14 Apr 2022
Naming the Unnameable: Daribha Lyndem’s NAME PLACE ANIMAL THING
14 Apr 2022
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3 Apr 2022
Perumal Murugan Q&A: ‘It has always been my nature to go against the grain’
3 Apr 2022
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Film/TV
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18 May 2026
Monsters and Men
18 May 2026
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11 May 2026
Othering Mothers
11 May 2026
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7 May 2026
Heat / Action
7 May 2026
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22 Mar 2026
How to Resist a Postmodern Zombification
22 Mar 2026
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6 Feb 2026
In the Second RAAT AKELI HAI, the Genre Reaches its Saturation Point
6 Feb 2026
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3 Feb 2026
Red Streaks on the Silver Screen
3 Feb 2026
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28 Jan 2026
HOMEBOUND, SABAR BONDA, and the Immeasurable Burden of One’s Roots
28 Jan 2026
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14 Jan 2026
The Politics of Female Longing in Fire and “Lihaaf”
14 Jan 2026
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26 Nov 2025
The Curious Case of Tripti Dimri
26 Nov 2025
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3 Nov 2025
Nothing Impure: Why misogynist taboos around menstruation continue to plague India
3 Nov 2025
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10 Sept 2025
Smooth Operators: Meet Cauvery’s Elusive Apex Predator in MY OTTER DIARY
10 Sept 2025
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2 Jul 2025
Mother Supreme
2 Jul 2025
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27 Jun 2025
Aurangzeb, Sambhaji, and Other Misremembered Lessons from History
27 Jun 2025
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26 May 2025
How to Cook up a Cartel
26 May 2025
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21 May 2025
The Imitators
21 May 2025
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17 May 2025
‘Bandi’; Or the Words that Redefine a Woman
17 May 2025
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14 May 2025
‘Mrs.’, ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’, and the Women Who Couldn’t Choose to Walk Away
14 May 2025
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21 Apr 2025
The Trap of the Comfort Watch
21 Apr 2025
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23 Mar 2025
The Man Who Remembers
23 Mar 2025
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13 Mar 2025
Darna Zaroori Hai: The Evolution of Horror in Bollywood
13 Mar 2025
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5 Feb 2025
Talking the Talk: MEIYAZHAGAN and the Therapeutic Effect of Conversation
5 Feb 2025
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19 Jan 2025
‘Shockingly Beautiful’: Ranking the Best of Bollywood in 2024
19 Jan 2025
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12 Jan 2025
The many dichotomies of ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT
12 Jan 2025
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23 Oct 2024
Lost Women and Found Freedoms
23 Oct 2024
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10 Sept 2024
Mythological Narratives, Scientific Imaginations
10 Sept 2024
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3 Sept 2024
The Grand Cinema of Taking Offense
3 Sept 2024
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22 Jul 2024
Gone Girls
22 Jul 2024
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24 Jun 2024
No Monkeying Around
24 Jun 2024
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4 Jun 2024
A Caste-Ridden Society, in Checkmate
4 Jun 2024
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19 May 2024
Art, Defanged
19 May 2024
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25 Mar 2024
The Interplay of Fear and Courage in WHILE WE WATCHED
25 Mar 2024
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19 Mar 2024
Luck, Chance, and Cinema
19 Mar 2024
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8 Mar 2024
Silver Screen Circus
8 Mar 2024
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2 Mar 2024
Chef’s Kiss
2 Mar 2024
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1 Feb 2024
DRY DAY: A Tale of Political and Personal Prohibitions
1 Feb 2024
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28 Dec 2023
GOLDFISH: An Intimate Exploration of Family, Dementia, and Dysfunction
28 Dec 2023
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14 Dec 2023
Courage Becomes Cruelty: An Appropriation of “Arjan Vailly” in ANIMAL
14 Dec 2023
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10 Dec 2023
How Mammootty—the ‘Megastar’—Redefined Stardom
10 Dec 2023
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1 Nov 2023
Black Water and Black Hearts: The Politics of Citizenship in KAALA PAANI
1 Nov 2023
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18 Aug 2023
Garmi: A scorching drama on Indian Campus Politics
18 Aug 2023
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20 Jul 2023
A Profound Slow Burn
20 Jul 2023
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7 Mar 2023
Good Cop / Good Cop
7 Mar 2023
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20 Nov 2022
The Rockstar Catalysts
20 Nov 2022
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22 Oct 2022
A Grand Unified Theory of Aamir Khan
22 Oct 2022
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10 Sept 2022
The Idyllic Indian Village, Interrupted
10 Sept 2022
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18 Jul 2022
PANCHAYAT is a throwback that looks ahead
18 Jul 2022
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27 Jun 2022
A city translated through the languages of love
27 Jun 2022
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10 Jun 2022
An Age of Unreason: The Kashmir Files and The War on Information
10 Jun 2022
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11 Apr 2022
In BADHAAI DO, a small story asks big, bold questions
11 Apr 2022
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31 Mar 2022
The Great Indian Waste of Potential
31 Mar 2022
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19 Mar 2022
A Mature Portrayal of Science and Sensibility
19 Mar 2022
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1 Jan 2022
A BUNTY AUR BABLI for the Millennials
1 Jan 2022
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24 Dec 2021
The Women Behind the Screen: Anubha Yadav discusses her book SCRIPTING BOLLYWOOD
24 Dec 2021
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26 Nov 2021
The Past Superimposed upon the Present: Shoojit Sircar’s SARDAR UDHAM
26 Nov 2021
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12 Nov 2021
The ‘Secrets’ beyond a compelling Indian true-crime series
12 Nov 2021
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3 Nov 2021
Watch: THE LESSER CITIZENS, a short documentary about migrant labourers in Kerala
3 Nov 2021
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13 Sept 2021
THE DISCIPLE and Labours of Being Alive
13 Sept 2021
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15 Jul 2021
Skating Past Caste Tensions: How a Documentary Captured the ‘Wings’ of Change in an Indian village
15 Jul 2021
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9 Jul 2021
A roaring commentary on Indian Wildlife
9 Jul 2021
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7 Jul 2021
Life and Love through the Prism of Death
7 Jul 2021
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1 Jul 2021
TVF’s continuing ‘Aspiration’ as the voice of India’s Youth
1 Jul 2021
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26 May 2021
Thirteen Days of Mourning and Music, Death and Life
26 May 2021
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13 May 2021
The Long, Dark Chai-Time of the Soul
13 May 2021
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28 Apr 2021
Stranger Lives: AJEEB DAASTAANS—four uneven short films on life, love, and intersectionality
28 Apr 2021
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1 Apr 2021
The Inscrutable Oddity of Youth
1 Apr 2021
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11 Mar 2021
The Kitchen and the Cage
11 Mar 2021
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24 Feb 2021
Heroes and “Heroes”: AK VS AK and the blossoming of Meta-Cinema in Bollywood
24 Feb 2021
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14 Feb 2021
The Weight of Love: “Sir” and the delicate balance of an uneven romance
14 Feb 2021
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31 Jan 2021
Indian Tiger, Foreign Gaze
31 Jan 2021
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28 Jan 2021
Bringing Back the Popcorn: Is the future of Indian Films in OTT or the Theatre?
28 Jan 2021
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30 Dec 2020
The Next Episodes: The Best Indian web series in a year of OTT excellence
30 Dec 2020
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23 Dec 2020
Beyond Rom-Com: Finding the Unexpected in MISMATCHED
23 Dec 2020
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15 Dec 2020
Mass Entertainment Outrage
15 Dec 2020
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9 Dec 2020
SCAM 1992: A Time-Capsule of Crooked Ambition
9 Dec 2020
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7 Dec 2020
Jaa… Jee Le Apni Zindagi: On Fathers Confronting Feminism in Hindi Cinema
7 Dec 2020
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3 Dec 2020
The Story of the Aashrams Behind AASHRAM
3 Dec 2020
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11 Nov 2020
Blood Spilled and Blood Shared
11 Nov 2020
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10 Oct 2020
Scandal, Sex, and Skeletons: Aashram and the predictable villainy of on-screen godmen
10 Oct 2020
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29 Sept 2020
A Voice that Crossed Over; A Voice of a Generation
29 Sept 2020
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20 Sept 2020
The Sacrifices of Matrimony in A Suitable Boy
20 Sept 2020
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8 Sept 2020
Bulbbul: A Hypnotic Ride into the Horrors of Patriarchy
8 Sept 2020
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19 Aug 2020
Lights, Camera, and Gold Medals
19 Aug 2020
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5 Aug 2020
Sima Auntie’s Inconvenient Arrangements
5 Aug 2020
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27 Jul 2020
Bol! Ye thoda waqt bahut hai: Finding timeless poetry on the contemporary screen
27 Jul 2020
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15 Jul 2020
In the driver’s seat: A toast to the Everyday Woman in Gulabo Sitabo
15 Jul 2020
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4 Jul 2020
Cricket on Screen: The good, bad and ugly of Cricket in Bollywood
4 Jul 2020
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28 Jun 2020
Lyrical Cacophony: Sexuality and Objectification in Bollywood’s ‘Item Numbers’
28 Jun 2020
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25 Jun 2020
Existence Is Resistance: How AXONE breaks barriers for Northeast representation in Bollywood
25 Jun 2020
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23 Jun 2020
The World According to Chippa
23 Jun 2020
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9 Jun 2020
City On Screen: Banaras to Varanasi
9 Jun 2020
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8 Jun 2020
Student's Corner: Back to Wasseypur
8 Jun 2020
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23 May 2020
The Weird and the Woeful
23 May 2020
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16 May 2020
Transcendence or trap: The pitfalls of Imtiaz Ali's SHE
16 May 2020
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3 May 2020
In His Second Skin: Roles that defined Irrfan Khan’s unmatched acting talent
3 May 2020
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28 Apr 2020
A gust of freedom: Water, Gender, and Caste in HELLARO
28 Apr 2020
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16 Apr 2020
A Hanumanic Leap: Why we must let India's mythological epics evolve beyond religion
16 Apr 2020
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23 Mar 2020
Yeh Meri (TV) Family
23 Mar 2020
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16 Mar 2020
Her Favourite Colour: How a ‘small’ incident in THAPPAD reveals the complex roots of Indian marriage and patriarchy
16 Mar 2020
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21 Feb 2020
In JAWAANI JANEMAN, Bollywood wrestles - and loses - with the idea of accepting an alternative lifestyle
21 Feb 2020
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8 Feb 2020
City On Screen: Bombay to Mumbai
8 Feb 2020
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Misc.
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24 May 2026
A Nation’s Song: The Early History of “Vande Mataram”
24 May 2026
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29 Apr 2026
Knowledge Without Consent
29 Apr 2026
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26 Mar 2026
Love is a Seasonal Fruit: On Intimacy Under Capitalism
26 Mar 2026
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16 Mar 2026
For Many Kashmiri Craftsmen, “Skill isn’t alone to survive”
16 Mar 2026
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16 Feb 2026
Could AI usher in the advent of Universal Basic Income for India?
16 Feb 2026
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5 Dec 2025
The Pendant of Exile and Inherited Memory: How the Dejhoor Chronicles the Passage of Kashmiri Pandit Women
5 Dec 2025
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3 Nov 2025
Nothing Impure: Why misogynist taboos around menstruation continue to plague India
3 Nov 2025
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12 Oct 2025
A Himalaya Under Torrential Threat
12 Oct 2025
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8 Jul 2025
Houses, Apartments, and Visions of a New Indian Home
8 Jul 2025
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27 Jun 2025
Aurangzeb, Sambhaji, and Other Misremembered Lessons from History
27 Jun 2025
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8 May 2025
Maligned by Misinformation
8 May 2025
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5 May 2025
Stork Sister
5 May 2025
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1 Mar 2025
In Search of Shitala
1 Mar 2025
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17 Feb 2025
Love Without Freedom: The Shackles upon Indian Women in the Workforce
17 Feb 2025
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2 Feb 2025
Cannabis and the Kumbh
2 Feb 2025
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9 Jan 2025
The Trees of Our Land
9 Jan 2025
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9 Dec 2024
Calcutta’s Chromosome, Hidden in Plain Sight
9 Dec 2024
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23 Nov 2024
The ‘Sentinels’ of Tomorrow
23 Nov 2024
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10 Nov 2024
In Language, Colonial Kolkata Stays Alive
10 Nov 2024
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15 Sept 2024
The Legend of Café Samovar, Mumbai’s Melting Pot of Cozy Camaraderie
15 Sept 2024
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25 Jul 2024
The Summer of Heat Islands
25 Jul 2024
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25 Apr 2024
Where is the Work?
25 Apr 2024
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10 Feb 2024
Snowless in the Himalaya
10 Feb 2024
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29 Nov 2023
Troubled Waters
29 Nov 2023
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12 Feb 2023
The Growth Malaise
12 Feb 2023
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4 May 2022
The Decline That Wasn’t
4 May 2022
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5 Apr 2022
The Maya and the Meta
5 Apr 2022
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8 Mar 2022
Empowering The Marginalised
8 Mar 2022
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19 Jan 2022
Should we ever return to our offices again?
19 Jan 2022
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13 Dec 2021
Do You Hate This Ad? Spotify and the Self-Reflexivity of Advertising
13 Dec 2021
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18 Oct 2021
What Makes a Modern Indian Minimalist?
18 Oct 2021
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23 Jul 2021
Mental Health in India: Purity, Pollution, Caste, and Mental Health
23 Jul 2021
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17 Jun 2021
Selective Scarcity: A Queer Lens at India’s Health Care Imbalance
17 Jun 2021
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11 Jun 2021
A Tale of Two Pandemics: COVID and Disinformation
11 Jun 2021
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1 Jun 2021
How Happy Is Your Timeline?
1 Jun 2021
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18 May 2021
Reclaiming the Lost House of Oudh
18 May 2021
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16 Mar 2021
Mental Health in India: Academic Spaces as Centres of Well-Being and Resilience
16 Mar 2021
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9 Feb 2021
The Uncredited Authors of India’s Growth Story
9 Feb 2021
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24 Jan 2021
‘We Shall Not Live Half-Asleep’: Glimpses of Revolution from the Farmers’ Protests
24 Jan 2021
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9 Jan 2021
Mental Health in India: Gaps in mental health care for India’s LGBTQ+ community
9 Jan 2021
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26 Nov 2020
Mental Health in India: Religion and mental health distress
26 Nov 2020
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31 Oct 2020
India’s Prevention Paradox
31 Oct 2020
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13 Oct 2020
Mental Health in India: Capitalism, Productivity and Mental Health Distress
13 Oct 2020
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1 Oct 2020
The Crumbling Fourth Pillar
1 Oct 2020
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5 Sept 2020
Mental Health in India: Looking Through a Filter of Colonialism and Casteism
5 Sept 2020
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31 Aug 2020
India's Wait for the COVID-19 Vaccine and Economic Concerns Post-Lockdown
31 Aug 2020
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13 Aug 2020
What Happens After the Vaccine?
13 Aug 2020
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7 Jul 2020
The Disaster and the Displaced
7 Jul 2020
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15 Jun 2020
Stained Khaki: The roots and aggravations of police brutality
15 Jun 2020
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19 May 2020
The Vulnerable 50%
19 May 2020
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30 Apr 2020
The Mahatma in Mussoorie
30 Apr 2020
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7 Apr 2020
Mussoorie Writers: Tales From Sikander Hall by Lillian Skinner Singh
7 Apr 2020
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2 Apr 2020
The Indian Government Handbook to Fighting Coronavirus: An illustrated six-step journey
2 Apr 2020
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11 Mar 2020
The Redesign of New Delhi’s Central Vista, and the Colonial Stripes of Narendra Modi
11 Mar 2020
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16 Feb 2020
The Manic Medley of the Maximum City
16 Feb 2020
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29 Dec 2019
The Indigestible Politics and Violence of Food in India
29 Dec 2019
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Music
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17 Nov 2025
Reble Is Coming for the Crown
17 Nov 2025
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8 Nov 2025
Zubeen Garg: Assam’s Cultural Maverick and Timeless Icon
8 Nov 2025
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27 Oct 2025
From Meme to Mania: The Cult Resurgence of Lord Himesh
27 Oct 2025
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24 Oct 2025
Rounak Maiti’s Confrontation with Home, the World, and the Self
24 Oct 2025
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24 Sept 2025
What Ed Sheeran’s “Sapphire” gets right about representing India
24 Sept 2025
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11 Jul 2025
KADAHIN MILANDAASIN: Tarun Balani’s Sonic Memoir of Displacement, Grief & Belonging
11 Jul 2025
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21 May 2025
The Imitators
21 May 2025
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1 Sept 2024
We Need to Talk About Hanumankind
1 Sept 2024
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18 Jun 2024
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A Sonic Autobiography of Moods: Music by Vivek Venugopal
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The Birth of Mocaine’s New Dimensions
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16 Aug 2021
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14 Aug 2021
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22 Jun 2021
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18 Apr 2021
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16 Jan 2021
Kranti Havi: How Swadesi Became India’s Most Potent Voice of Protest Hip Hop
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8 Nov 2020
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28 Oct 2020
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29 Sept 2020
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11 Jul 2020
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28 Jun 2020
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31 May 2020
Livin’ With Metal: A peep into the Indian metal scene
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15 May 2020
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22 Apr 2020
The homegrown blues of Lal And the People—An interview with frontman Rohit Lalwani
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19 Apr 2020
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28 Mar 2020
Music and the Virus: How the COVID-19 outbreak has disrupted the Indian Indie Scene.
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25 Mar 2020
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29 Jan 2020
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22 Jan 2020
Lucknow Music Diaries: Sticking to the setlist
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26 Dec 2019
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14 Dec 2019
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6 Dec 2019
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1 Dec 2019
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29 Nov 2019
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24 Nov 2019
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21 Nov 2019
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13 Nov 2019
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6 Nov 2019
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22 Apr 2026
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30 Sept 2025
In Photos: 1st Landour Literature & Arts Festival Held in Landour
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28 Aug 2025
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6 Jul 2025
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11 Jun 2025
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27 Mar 2025
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27 Mar 2025
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23 Feb 2025
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16 Jan 2024
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16 Jan 2024
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25 Nov 2023
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16 Aug 2023
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9 Feb 2023
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15 Nov 2022
On The Gateways of Faith: Divinity and the Damned in Haridwar
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1 Aug 2022
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24 Jun 2022
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12 Feb 2022
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18 Dec 2021
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28 Aug 2021
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30 Jul 2021
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15 Jun 2021
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9 Jun 2021
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21 Apr 2021
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9 Mar 2021
Fishing Along the Coringa Mangrove Forests
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17 Feb 2021
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11 Feb 2021
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24 Jan 2021
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13 Jan 2021
Everyday Rajasthan Travel Photo Contest 2020: The Winners!
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28 Dec 2020
Pardesi Pahadi: Avalanche on Apharwat
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20 Dec 2020
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29 Nov 2020
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25 Oct 2020
Sonepur Mela: At the Festival of Beasts
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21 Oct 2020
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14 Sept 2020
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17 Jun 2020
Pardesi Pahadi: Five books on the Himalaya and other Mountains
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4 Jun 2020
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2 Jun 2020
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25 Apr 2020
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10 Apr 2020
Pardesi Pahadi: Ascent to Bandarpunch - In search for wonders, real and imagined
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19 Mar 2020
Student's Corner: Pondy - The South Indian Gem
19 Mar 2020
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14 Mar 2020
Indian Railways: A photographic journey
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9 Mar 2020
Barsana Bhog: The legendary Holi celebrations of Braj
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1 Mar 2020
Northeast Delhi Riots and the charred smell of Fear
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27 Feb 2020
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27 Feb 2020
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11 Feb 2020
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5 Feb 2020
Achieving Zero: The loud silences of art from the 2020 India Art Fair
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3 Jan 2020
Pardesi Pahadi: Nanda Devi - A glimpse of the Himalayan Goddess
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19 Dec 2019
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8 Nov 2019
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Art
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4 Apr 2026
Legacy Projects: A Revaluation of Public Art in India
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3 Mar 2026
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25 Jan 2026
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16 Jan 2026
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6 Jan 2025
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25 Dec 2024
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13 Apr 2024
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11 Apr 2024
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16 Jan 2024
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21 Oct 2023
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18 Oct 2023
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3 Jul 2023
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10 Mar 2023
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7 Feb 2023
The Beauty of Two Souls: The Rise of Customized Art
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10 Jan 2023
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24 Dec 2022
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2 Dec 2022
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26 Nov 2022
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7 Nov 2022
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2 Nov 2022
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8 Sept 2022
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28 Jul 2022
A telling of our times: The art of Ashok Bhowmick
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21 Jul 2022
Indian Art Under the Company’s Shadow
21 Jul 2022
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19 May 2022
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19 May 2022
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14 May 2022
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30 Apr 2022
A Celebration of 1,300 years of Islamic Art
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18 Apr 2022
‘I Float, You Rise’: The art of Rahul Chauhan
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16 Apr 2022
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9 Apr 2022
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7 Apr 2022
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14 Feb 2022
The Dark Webs of Jogen Chowdhury
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1 Feb 2022
Full Circle: Ahlawat Gunjan on the Wondrous World of Book Cover Design
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10 Jan 2022
The Women and the Safety Pin
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7 Jan 2022
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21 Dec 2021
With ‘Episteme’, Ten Indian Artists Translate the Language of Now
21 Dec 2021
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10 Dec 2021
The Studio as a Canvas: Sanoop P.C.’s Poetry of Impermanence
10 Dec 2021
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5 Nov 2021
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1 Oct 2021
Full Circle: Shaleen Wadhwana on Art History in a Digital World
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28 Sept 2021
Distorted Images: Caste, Sexuality, and History in the art of Keerthana Chandragiri
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26 Aug 2021
Full Circle: Amardeep Behl on the Narrative Experiences in Space
26 Aug 2021
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27 Jul 2021
Raja Ravi Varma, Retold for Children
27 Jul 2021
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23 May 2021
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23 May 2021
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5 Dec 2020
Life in the Bubbles: Dhruvi Acharya’s Pandemic Art
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17 Nov 2020
Leaving Behind the Stardust: Inder Salim and a life sacrificed to art
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7 May 2020
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7 May 2020
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5 Feb 2020
Achieving Zero: The loud silences of art from the 2020 India Art Fair
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17 Dec 2022
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India’s AI Governance Guidelines are here—But what of the Publishing Sector?
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14 Jan 2026
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27 Sept 2025
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27 Sept 2025
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27 Jul 2025
A Gothic Novel with An Indian Twist
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9 Dec 2024
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5 Dec 2024
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14 Oct 2024
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In Our Own Voices: Queer Representation at the International Kolkata Book Fair
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26 Dec 2023
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19 Dec 2023
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19 Dec 2023
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22 Nov 2023
A Bombay That Demands More
22 Nov 2023
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15 Oct 2023
A Synthesis of Physics and Poetry
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23 Sept 2023
Arundhati Roy: A Troublemaker Needed for our Troubled Times
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11 Jul 2023
A Compassionate Dissent: The poetry of Madhu Raghavendra
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18 Feb 2023
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25 Oct 2022
Tales from a Bloody Baisakhi
25 Oct 2022
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16 Sept 2022
Art Against the Algorithm: Vauhini Vara’s THE IMMORTAL KING RAO
16 Sept 2022
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10 Sept 2022
The Idyllic Indian Village, Interrupted
10 Sept 2022
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2 Sept 2022
Literary Reflections: Stories from India and Pakistan in THE OTHER IN THE MIRROR
2 Sept 2022
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27 Aug 2022
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27 Aug 2022
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13 Aug 2022
A Forgotten Rebellion: The Royal Navy’s Mutiny of 1946
13 Aug 2022
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8 Aug 2022
Bleeding Past the Taboos: A new anthology on menstrual health in South Asia
8 Aug 2022
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4 Aug 2022
By the doorways of womanhood: The poetry of Kashiana Singh
4 Aug 2022
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10 Jul 2022
The Burning Embers of Petrofiction: Ilyas Ahmed Gaddi’s FIRE AREA
10 Jul 2022
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5 Jul 2022
In THE NUTMEG’S CURSE Amitav Ghosh gives voice to our ailing planet
5 Jul 2022
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6 Jun 2022
Authors of The Other: Social Realism in Indian Fiction
6 Jun 2022
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29 May 2022
Priya: The Brown-Skinned Supergirl to the Rescue
29 May 2022
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21 Apr 2022
The Ever-Moving Wheel: G.N. Devy on the Mahabharata
21 Apr 2022
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14 Apr 2022
Naming the Unnameable: Daribha Lyndem’s NAME PLACE ANIMAL THING
14 Apr 2022
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3 Apr 2022
Perumal Murugan Q&A: ‘It has always been my nature to go against the grain’
3 Apr 2022
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Film/TV
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18 May 2026
Monsters and Men
18 May 2026
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11 May 2026
Othering Mothers
11 May 2026
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7 May 2026
Heat / Action
7 May 2026
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22 Mar 2026
How to Resist a Postmodern Zombification
22 Mar 2026
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6 Feb 2026
In the Second RAAT AKELI HAI, the Genre Reaches its Saturation Point
6 Feb 2026
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3 Feb 2026
Red Streaks on the Silver Screen
3 Feb 2026
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28 Jan 2026
HOMEBOUND, SABAR BONDA, and the Immeasurable Burden of One’s Roots
28 Jan 2026
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14 Jan 2026
The Politics of Female Longing in Fire and “Lihaaf”
14 Jan 2026
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26 Nov 2025
The Curious Case of Tripti Dimri
26 Nov 2025
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3 Nov 2025
Nothing Impure: Why misogynist taboos around menstruation continue to plague India
3 Nov 2025
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10 Sept 2025
Smooth Operators: Meet Cauvery’s Elusive Apex Predator in MY OTTER DIARY
10 Sept 2025
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2 Jul 2025
Mother Supreme
2 Jul 2025
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27 Jun 2025
Aurangzeb, Sambhaji, and Other Misremembered Lessons from History
27 Jun 2025
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26 May 2025
How to Cook up a Cartel
26 May 2025
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21 May 2025
The Imitators
21 May 2025
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17 May 2025
‘Bandi’; Or the Words that Redefine a Woman
17 May 2025
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14 May 2025
‘Mrs.’, ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’, and the Women Who Couldn’t Choose to Walk Away
14 May 2025
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21 Apr 2025
The Trap of the Comfort Watch
21 Apr 2025
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23 Mar 2025
The Man Who Remembers
23 Mar 2025
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13 Mar 2025
Darna Zaroori Hai: The Evolution of Horror in Bollywood
13 Mar 2025
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5 Feb 2025
Talking the Talk: MEIYAZHAGAN and the Therapeutic Effect of Conversation
5 Feb 2025
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19 Jan 2025
‘Shockingly Beautiful’: Ranking the Best of Bollywood in 2024
19 Jan 2025
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12 Jan 2025
The many dichotomies of ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT
12 Jan 2025
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23 Oct 2024
Lost Women and Found Freedoms
23 Oct 2024
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10 Sept 2024
Mythological Narratives, Scientific Imaginations
10 Sept 2024
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3 Sept 2024
The Grand Cinema of Taking Offense
3 Sept 2024
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22 Jul 2024
Gone Girls
22 Jul 2024
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24 Jun 2024
No Monkeying Around
24 Jun 2024
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4 Jun 2024
A Caste-Ridden Society, in Checkmate
4 Jun 2024
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19 May 2024
Art, Defanged
19 May 2024
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25 Mar 2024
The Interplay of Fear and Courage in WHILE WE WATCHED
25 Mar 2024
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19 Mar 2024
Luck, Chance, and Cinema
19 Mar 2024
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8 Mar 2024
Silver Screen Circus
8 Mar 2024
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2 Mar 2024
Chef’s Kiss
2 Mar 2024
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1 Feb 2024
DRY DAY: A Tale of Political and Personal Prohibitions
1 Feb 2024
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28 Dec 2023
GOLDFISH: An Intimate Exploration of Family, Dementia, and Dysfunction
28 Dec 2023
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14 Dec 2023
Courage Becomes Cruelty: An Appropriation of “Arjan Vailly” in ANIMAL
14 Dec 2023
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10 Dec 2023
How Mammootty—the ‘Megastar’—Redefined Stardom
10 Dec 2023
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1 Nov 2023
Black Water and Black Hearts: The Politics of Citizenship in KAALA PAANI
1 Nov 2023
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18 Aug 2023
Garmi: A scorching drama on Indian Campus Politics
18 Aug 2023
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20 Jul 2023
A Profound Slow Burn
20 Jul 2023
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7 Mar 2023
Good Cop / Good Cop
7 Mar 2023
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20 Nov 2022
The Rockstar Catalysts
20 Nov 2022
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22 Oct 2022
A Grand Unified Theory of Aamir Khan
22 Oct 2022
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10 Sept 2022
The Idyllic Indian Village, Interrupted
10 Sept 2022
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18 Jul 2022
PANCHAYAT is a throwback that looks ahead
18 Jul 2022
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27 Jun 2022
A city translated through the languages of love
27 Jun 2022
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10 Jun 2022
An Age of Unreason: The Kashmir Files and The War on Information
10 Jun 2022
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11 Apr 2022
In BADHAAI DO, a small story asks big, bold questions
11 Apr 2022
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31 Mar 2022
The Great Indian Waste of Potential
31 Mar 2022
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19 Mar 2022
A Mature Portrayal of Science and Sensibility
19 Mar 2022
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1 Jan 2022
A BUNTY AUR BABLI for the Millennials
1 Jan 2022
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24 Dec 2021
The Women Behind the Screen: Anubha Yadav discusses her book SCRIPTING BOLLYWOOD
24 Dec 2021
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26 Nov 2021
The Past Superimposed upon the Present: Shoojit Sircar’s SARDAR UDHAM
26 Nov 2021
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12 Nov 2021
The ‘Secrets’ beyond a compelling Indian true-crime series
12 Nov 2021
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3 Nov 2021
Watch: THE LESSER CITIZENS, a short documentary about migrant labourers in Kerala
3 Nov 2021
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13 Sept 2021
THE DISCIPLE and Labours of Being Alive
13 Sept 2021
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15 Jul 2021
Skating Past Caste Tensions: How a Documentary Captured the ‘Wings’ of Change in an Indian village
15 Jul 2021
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9 Jul 2021
A roaring commentary on Indian Wildlife
9 Jul 2021
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7 Jul 2021
Life and Love through the Prism of Death
7 Jul 2021
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1 Jul 2021
TVF’s continuing ‘Aspiration’ as the voice of India’s Youth
1 Jul 2021
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26 May 2021
Thirteen Days of Mourning and Music, Death and Life
26 May 2021
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13 May 2021
The Long, Dark Chai-Time of the Soul
13 May 2021
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28 Apr 2021
Stranger Lives: AJEEB DAASTAANS—four uneven short films on life, love, and intersectionality
28 Apr 2021
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1 Apr 2021
The Inscrutable Oddity of Youth
1 Apr 2021
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11 Mar 2021
The Kitchen and the Cage
11 Mar 2021
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24 Feb 2021
Heroes and “Heroes”: AK VS AK and the blossoming of Meta-Cinema in Bollywood
24 Feb 2021
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14 Feb 2021
The Weight of Love: “Sir” and the delicate balance of an uneven romance
14 Feb 2021
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31 Jan 2021
Indian Tiger, Foreign Gaze
31 Jan 2021
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28 Jan 2021
Bringing Back the Popcorn: Is the future of Indian Films in OTT or the Theatre?
28 Jan 2021
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30 Dec 2020
The Next Episodes: The Best Indian web series in a year of OTT excellence
30 Dec 2020
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23 Dec 2020
Beyond Rom-Com: Finding the Unexpected in MISMATCHED
23 Dec 2020
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15 Dec 2020
Mass Entertainment Outrage
15 Dec 2020
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9 Dec 2020
SCAM 1992: A Time-Capsule of Crooked Ambition
9 Dec 2020
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7 Dec 2020
Jaa… Jee Le Apni Zindagi: On Fathers Confronting Feminism in Hindi Cinema
7 Dec 2020
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3 Dec 2020
The Story of the Aashrams Behind AASHRAM
3 Dec 2020
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11 Nov 2020
Blood Spilled and Blood Shared
11 Nov 2020
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10 Oct 2020
Scandal, Sex, and Skeletons: Aashram and the predictable villainy of on-screen godmen
10 Oct 2020
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29 Sept 2020
A Voice that Crossed Over; A Voice of a Generation
29 Sept 2020
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20 Sept 2020
The Sacrifices of Matrimony in A Suitable Boy
20 Sept 2020
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8 Sept 2020
Bulbbul: A Hypnotic Ride into the Horrors of Patriarchy
8 Sept 2020
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19 Aug 2020
Lights, Camera, and Gold Medals
19 Aug 2020
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5 Aug 2020
Sima Auntie’s Inconvenient Arrangements
5 Aug 2020
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27 Jul 2020
Bol! Ye thoda waqt bahut hai: Finding timeless poetry on the contemporary screen
27 Jul 2020
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15 Jul 2020
In the driver’s seat: A toast to the Everyday Woman in Gulabo Sitabo
15 Jul 2020
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4 Jul 2020
Cricket on Screen: The good, bad and ugly of Cricket in Bollywood
4 Jul 2020
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28 Jun 2020
Lyrical Cacophony: Sexuality and Objectification in Bollywood’s ‘Item Numbers’
28 Jun 2020
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25 Jun 2020
Existence Is Resistance: How AXONE breaks barriers for Northeast representation in Bollywood
25 Jun 2020
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23 Jun 2020
The World According to Chippa
23 Jun 2020
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9 Jun 2020
City On Screen: Banaras to Varanasi
9 Jun 2020
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8 Jun 2020
Student's Corner: Back to Wasseypur
8 Jun 2020
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23 May 2020
The Weird and the Woeful
23 May 2020
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16 May 2020
Transcendence or trap: The pitfalls of Imtiaz Ali's SHE
16 May 2020
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3 May 2020
In His Second Skin: Roles that defined Irrfan Khan’s unmatched acting talent
3 May 2020
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28 Apr 2020
A gust of freedom: Water, Gender, and Caste in HELLARO
28 Apr 2020
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16 Apr 2020
A Hanumanic Leap: Why we must let India's mythological epics evolve beyond religion
16 Apr 2020
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23 Mar 2020
Yeh Meri (TV) Family
23 Mar 2020
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16 Mar 2020
Her Favourite Colour: How a ‘small’ incident in THAPPAD reveals the complex roots of Indian marriage and patriarchy
16 Mar 2020
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21 Feb 2020
In JAWAANI JANEMAN, Bollywood wrestles - and loses - with the idea of accepting an alternative lifestyle
21 Feb 2020
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8 Feb 2020
City On Screen: Bombay to Mumbai
8 Feb 2020
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Misc.
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24 May 2026
A Nation’s Song: The Early History of “Vande Mataram”
24 May 2026
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29 Apr 2026
Knowledge Without Consent
29 Apr 2026
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26 Mar 2026
Love is a Seasonal Fruit: On Intimacy Under Capitalism
26 Mar 2026
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16 Mar 2026
For Many Kashmiri Craftsmen, “Skill isn’t alone to survive”
16 Mar 2026
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16 Feb 2026
Could AI usher in the advent of Universal Basic Income for India?
16 Feb 2026
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5 Dec 2025
The Pendant of Exile and Inherited Memory: How the Dejhoor Chronicles the Passage of Kashmiri Pandit Women
5 Dec 2025
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3 Nov 2025
Nothing Impure: Why misogynist taboos around menstruation continue to plague India
3 Nov 2025
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12 Oct 2025
A Himalaya Under Torrential Threat
12 Oct 2025
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8 Jul 2025
Houses, Apartments, and Visions of a New Indian Home
8 Jul 2025
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27 Jun 2025
Aurangzeb, Sambhaji, and Other Misremembered Lessons from History
27 Jun 2025
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8 May 2025
Maligned by Misinformation
8 May 2025
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5 May 2025
Stork Sister
5 May 2025
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1 Mar 2025
In Search of Shitala
1 Mar 2025
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17 Feb 2025
Love Without Freedom: The Shackles upon Indian Women in the Workforce
17 Feb 2025
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2 Feb 2025
Cannabis and the Kumbh
2 Feb 2025
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9 Jan 2025
The Trees of Our Land
9 Jan 2025
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9 Dec 2024
Calcutta’s Chromosome, Hidden in Plain Sight
9 Dec 2024
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23 Nov 2024
The ‘Sentinels’ of Tomorrow
23 Nov 2024
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10 Nov 2024
In Language, Colonial Kolkata Stays Alive
10 Nov 2024
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15 Sept 2024
The Legend of Café Samovar, Mumbai’s Melting Pot of Cozy Camaraderie
15 Sept 2024
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25 Jul 2024
The Summer of Heat Islands
25 Jul 2024
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25 Apr 2024
Where is the Work?
25 Apr 2024
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10 Feb 2024
Snowless in the Himalaya
10 Feb 2024
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29 Nov 2023
Troubled Waters
29 Nov 2023
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12 Feb 2023
The Growth Malaise
12 Feb 2023
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4 May 2022
The Decline That Wasn’t
4 May 2022
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5 Apr 2022
The Maya and the Meta
5 Apr 2022
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8 Mar 2022
Empowering The Marginalised
8 Mar 2022
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19 Jan 2022
Should we ever return to our offices again?
19 Jan 2022
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13 Dec 2021
Do You Hate This Ad? Spotify and the Self-Reflexivity of Advertising
13 Dec 2021
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18 Oct 2021
What Makes a Modern Indian Minimalist?
18 Oct 2021
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23 Jul 2021
Mental Health in India: Purity, Pollution, Caste, and Mental Health
23 Jul 2021
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17 Jun 2021
Selective Scarcity: A Queer Lens at India’s Health Care Imbalance
17 Jun 2021
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11 Jun 2021
A Tale of Two Pandemics: COVID and Disinformation
11 Jun 2021
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1 Jun 2021
How Happy Is Your Timeline?
1 Jun 2021
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18 May 2021
Reclaiming the Lost House of Oudh
18 May 2021
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16 Mar 2021
Mental Health in India: Academic Spaces as Centres of Well-Being and Resilience
16 Mar 2021
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9 Feb 2021
The Uncredited Authors of India’s Growth Story
9 Feb 2021
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24 Jan 2021
‘We Shall Not Live Half-Asleep’: Glimpses of Revolution from the Farmers’ Protests
24 Jan 2021
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9 Jan 2021
Mental Health in India: Gaps in mental health care for India’s LGBTQ+ community
9 Jan 2021
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26 Nov 2020
Mental Health in India: Religion and mental health distress
26 Nov 2020
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31 Oct 2020
India’s Prevention Paradox
31 Oct 2020
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13 Oct 2020
Mental Health in India: Capitalism, Productivity and Mental Health Distress
13 Oct 2020
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1 Oct 2020
The Crumbling Fourth Pillar
1 Oct 2020
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5 Sept 2020
Mental Health in India: Looking Through a Filter of Colonialism and Casteism
5 Sept 2020
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31 Aug 2020
India's Wait for the COVID-19 Vaccine and Economic Concerns Post-Lockdown
31 Aug 2020
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13 Aug 2020
What Happens After the Vaccine?
13 Aug 2020
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7 Jul 2020
The Disaster and the Displaced
7 Jul 2020
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15 Jun 2020
Stained Khaki: The roots and aggravations of police brutality
15 Jun 2020
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19 May 2020
The Vulnerable 50%
19 May 2020
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30 Apr 2020
The Mahatma in Mussoorie
30 Apr 2020
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7 Apr 2020
Mussoorie Writers: Tales From Sikander Hall by Lillian Skinner Singh
7 Apr 2020
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2 Apr 2020
The Indian Government Handbook to Fighting Coronavirus: An illustrated six-step journey
2 Apr 2020
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11 Mar 2020
The Redesign of New Delhi’s Central Vista, and the Colonial Stripes of Narendra Modi
11 Mar 2020
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16 Feb 2020
The Manic Medley of the Maximum City
16 Feb 2020
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29 Dec 2019
The Indigestible Politics and Violence of Food in India
29 Dec 2019
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Music
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17 Nov 2025
Reble Is Coming for the Crown
17 Nov 2025
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8 Nov 2025
Zubeen Garg: Assam’s Cultural Maverick and Timeless Icon
8 Nov 2025
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27 Oct 2025
From Meme to Mania: The Cult Resurgence of Lord Himesh
27 Oct 2025
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24 Oct 2025
Rounak Maiti’s Confrontation with Home, the World, and the Self
24 Oct 2025
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24 Sept 2025
What Ed Sheeran’s “Sapphire” gets right about representing India
24 Sept 2025
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11 Jul 2025
KADAHIN MILANDAASIN: Tarun Balani’s Sonic Memoir of Displacement, Grief & Belonging
11 Jul 2025
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21 May 2025
The Imitators
21 May 2025
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1 Sept 2024
We Need to Talk About Hanumankind
1 Sept 2024
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18 Jun 2024
‘Afraid of Feeling So Great’: Green Park’s Moody Melodies of Separation and Growth
18 Jun 2024
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17 May 2024
How Chamkila’s Music Holds a Mirror up to Punjab’s Cultural Vices
17 May 2024
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14 Dec 2023
Courage Becomes Cruelty: An Appropriation of “Arjan Vailly” in ANIMAL
14 Dec 2023
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9 Aug 2023
Pioneers of Bangla World Rock: An Interview with members of Krosswindz
9 Aug 2023
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13 Mar 2023
A Stage in Symphony: The Alchemy of QALA’s Music
13 Mar 2023
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1 Feb 2023
‘Meetha Sa Chara Hai Bukhar’: The Timeless Musical Fever of DEV.D
1 Feb 2023
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12 Jan 2023
Paa De Lohri: A reconsideration of the spring festival’s most popular folk songs
12 Jan 2023
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7 Oct 2022
Poison Pop
7 Oct 2022
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27 Sept 2022
808s & Sufiyana: Ahmer’s hip hop tapestry from the Kashmir Valley
27 Sept 2022
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21 Sept 2022
The Jazzy Raga of Cultures in MILES FROM INDIA
21 Sept 2022
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23 Aug 2022
A Sonic Autobiography of Moods: Music by Vivek Venugopal
23 Aug 2022
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11 May 2022
Pushing Forward with the Blues: An interview with Warren Mendonsa of Blackstratblues
11 May 2022
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28 Apr 2022
Jazz with an Indian Soul
28 Apr 2022
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31 Oct 2021
The Birth of Mocaine’s New Dimensions
31 Oct 2021
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16 Aug 2021
Of Inquilab and Saaz: The Music of Deepak Peace
16 Aug 2021
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14 Aug 2021
Songs in the Key of the Forest: The Music of Coorg’s Kudiya Tribe
14 Aug 2021
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22 Jun 2021
The Ballad of a Superpower Lost
22 Jun 2021
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18 Apr 2021
Punking The Public
18 Apr 2021
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16 Jan 2021
Kranti Havi: How Swadesi Became India’s Most Potent Voice of Protest Hip Hop
16 Jan 2021
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8 Nov 2020
Positive Vibrations
8 Nov 2020
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28 Oct 2020
The Perfect Blend: When Chai Met Toast and the Art of Happy, Infectious Music
28 Oct 2020
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29 Sept 2020
A Voice that Crossed Over; A Voice of a Generation
29 Sept 2020
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16 Sept 2020
When The Music Stops
16 Sept 2020
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3 Sept 2020
Music from the Hills: Abdon Mech dreams of better days in “Again”
3 Sept 2020
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11 Jul 2020
Music as Still Life: Sameer Rahat’s poetic solo debut Aamad
11 Jul 2020
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2 Jul 2020
The World is Ours—Divine leads the rise of Desi Rap, with an assist from Nas
2 Jul 2020
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28 Jun 2020
Lyrical Cacophony: Sexuality and Objectification in Bollywood’s ‘Item Numbers’
28 Jun 2020
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31 May 2020
Livin’ With Metal: A peep into the Indian metal scene
31 May 2020
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15 May 2020
Nowhere But Here
15 May 2020
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22 Apr 2020
The homegrown blues of Lal And the People—An interview with frontman Rohit Lalwani
22 Apr 2020
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19 Apr 2020
Music from the Hills: Bipul Chettri’s latest release, ‘Neela Akash’
19 Apr 2020
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28 Mar 2020
Music and the Virus: How the COVID-19 outbreak has disrupted the Indian Indie Scene.
28 Mar 2020
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25 Mar 2020
Music from the Hills: The Ladies of Indian Rock
25 Mar 2020
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29 Jan 2020
Music from the Hills: All efforts matter in the Indian indie scene
29 Jan 2020
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22 Jan 2020
Lucknow Music Diaries: Sticking to the setlist
22 Jan 2020
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26 Dec 2019
A Sort of Homecoming
26 Dec 2019
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14 Dec 2019
FutureDesi IndieSounds
14 Dec 2019
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6 Dec 2019
Wake Up and Listen
6 Dec 2019
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1 Dec 2019
Music from the Hills: The tale of the Worn-Out boot
1 Dec 2019
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29 Nov 2019
Rock-N-Honour-Rolls
29 Nov 2019
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24 Nov 2019
Meba’s Journey
24 Nov 2019
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21 Nov 2019
The Chakkar with Bangalore’s Live Music Scene
21 Nov 2019
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18 Nov 2019
Excerpt: ‘Music, Masti, Modernity: The Cinema of Nasir Husain’
18 Nov 2019
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13 Nov 2019
Music from the Hills
13 Nov 2019
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6 Nov 2019
Band, Baaja, and Bachelor's Degrees
6 Nov 2019
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Photography
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22 Apr 2026
Photo-Essay: The Frequencies of History
22 Apr 2026
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25 Mar 2026
Photo-Essay: A Muted Eid in Dalmandi
25 Mar 2026
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19 Mar 2026
A Uniting Ritual for the Republic
19 Mar 2026
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14 Dec 2025
Beneath the Golden Dome: Gurpurab in the Capital
14 Dec 2025
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30 Sept 2025
In Photos: 1st Landour Literature & Arts Festival Held in Landour
30 Sept 2025
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28 Aug 2025
At the Rohtang Pass, “We need tourists, but we also need clean air. It’s a tough balance.”
28 Aug 2025
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6 Jul 2025
The Only Tourist in Khonoma
6 Jul 2025
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11 Jun 2025
No More a Rootless Vine: Photo Story by Anamika Tamuli
11 Jun 2025
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27 Mar 2025
The City as Erised’s Mirror: A Vision of Kolkata
27 Mar 2025
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23 Feb 2025
Contours of a City: Poems and Photos by Sufia Khatoon
23 Feb 2025
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8 Feb 2025
Basant Panchami, Sufi Tunes, and Devotion: A tale of harmony at Nizamuddin Dargah
8 Feb 2025
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22 Mar 2024
A Symbiotic Dance of Survival and Reverence
22 Mar 2024
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16 Jan 2024
In Goa, Serendipity and the Self
16 Jan 2024
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25 Nov 2023
In Ramnagar, the Folk Theatre of the Ramlila Continues its Centuries-Old Traditions
25 Nov 2023
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16 Aug 2023
Bites from the Market
16 Aug 2023
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9 Feb 2023
Every Door, A Tender Veil: A photo-essay by Poornima Laxmeshwar
9 Feb 2023
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15 Nov 2022
On The Gateways of Faith: Divinity and the Damned in Haridwar
15 Nov 2022
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1 Aug 2022
A Searing Little Fire in Mumbai
1 Aug 2022
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24 Jun 2022
A colourful passage through time: Photos from Fort Kochi
24 Jun 2022
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12 Feb 2022
A Havoc in the Himalaya
12 Feb 2022
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18 Dec 2021
Breath, Life, and Connection – A Photo Essay
18 Dec 2021
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28 Aug 2021
Travelling Without Footprints
28 Aug 2021
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30 Jul 2021
The Backwaters
30 Jul 2021
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15 Jun 2021
Kolkata Hiraeth, A Longing for Home
15 Jun 2021
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9 Jun 2021
Pardesi Pahadi: Splendour and Survival at Sahastra Tal
9 Jun 2021
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21 Apr 2021
The Living Storybooks of Kolkata – A Photo Essay
21 Apr 2021
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9 Mar 2021
Fishing Along the Coringa Mangrove Forests
9 Mar 2021
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17 Feb 2021
The Drift
17 Feb 2021
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11 Feb 2021
Winter in the Old City
11 Feb 2021
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24 Jan 2021
‘We Shall Not Live Half-Asleep’: Glimpses of Revolution from the Farmers’ Protests
24 Jan 2021
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13 Jan 2021
Everyday Rajasthan Travel Photo Contest 2020: The Winners!
13 Jan 2021
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28 Dec 2020
Pardesi Pahadi: Avalanche on Apharwat
28 Dec 2020
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20 Dec 2020
The Outsider
20 Dec 2020
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29 Nov 2020
Bombayscapes - A Photo Gallery
29 Nov 2020
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25 Oct 2020
Sonepur Mela: At the Festival of Beasts
25 Oct 2020
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21 Oct 2020
Living Memories: A Glimpse of the history at Landour Bazaar
21 Oct 2020
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14 Sept 2020
Ghats, Gullies, and Ganga
14 Sept 2020
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17 Jun 2020
Pardesi Pahadi: Five books on the Himalaya and other Mountains
17 Jun 2020
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4 Jun 2020
What the storm brought home: A photo-essay from Nagapattinam
4 Jun 2020
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2 Jun 2020
Shyama's Cattle: Ode to a Himalayan friendship
2 Jun 2020
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25 Apr 2020
Isolated With The Sky
25 Apr 2020
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10 Apr 2020
Pardesi Pahadi: Ascent to Bandarpunch - In search for wonders, real and imagined
10 Apr 2020
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19 Mar 2020
Student's Corner: Pondy - The South Indian Gem
19 Mar 2020
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14 Mar 2020
Indian Railways: A photographic journey
14 Mar 2020
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9 Mar 2020
Barsana Bhog: The legendary Holi celebrations of Braj
9 Mar 2020
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1 Mar 2020
Northeast Delhi Riots and the charred smell of Fear
1 Mar 2020
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27 Feb 2020
Pardesi Pahadi: Kedar Tal - Finding magic in the Himalaya
27 Feb 2020
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11 Feb 2020
Pardesi Pahadi: The frozen, lost paths to Bali Pass
11 Feb 2020
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5 Feb 2020
Achieving Zero: The loud silences of art from the 2020 India Art Fair
5 Feb 2020
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3 Jan 2020
Pardesi Pahadi: Nanda Devi - A glimpse of the Himalayan Goddess
3 Jan 2020
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19 Dec 2019
The Forgotten Town of Opulent Seths
19 Dec 2019
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8 Nov 2019
This Is Goa
8 Nov 2019
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Art
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4 Apr 2026
Legacy Projects: A Revaluation of Public Art in India
4 Apr 2026
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3 Mar 2026
a boy who lost an eye
3 Mar 2026
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25 Jan 2026
Solvyns’ Bengal: The Etchings and Ethnography of an 18th Century Artist
25 Jan 2026
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16 Jan 2026
Painting the Bardo: The Art of Pema Tshering
16 Jan 2026
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6 Jan 2025
Fate, Fortune, and a Life-Affirming Encounter with the Work of Navjot Altaf
6 Jan 2025
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25 Dec 2024
A River to Flow Through Us All
25 Dec 2024
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13 Apr 2024
Queens of the Hills
13 Apr 2024
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11 Apr 2024
Spiritual Homecomings: Shalmali Shetty on her curatorial project “The nights will follow the days”
11 Apr 2024
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16 Jan 2024
In Goa, Serendipity and the Self
16 Jan 2024
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21 Oct 2023
Ink(ed) on Flat Surfaces: A Show on Studio Practice
21 Oct 2023
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18 Oct 2023
With Great Ease: A Celebration of T.S. Satyan’s Photographic Gaze
18 Oct 2023
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3 Jul 2023
Toy Story
3 Jul 2023
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10 Mar 2023
An International Collage of Art and Artists
10 Mar 2023
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7 Feb 2023
The Beauty of Two Souls: The Rise of Customized Art
7 Feb 2023
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10 Jan 2023
At Manchester, a permanent celebration of the South Asian Diaspora
10 Jan 2023
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24 Dec 2022
A Century of Artistic Synthesis and Reinterpretations
24 Dec 2022
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2 Dec 2022
On the Crossroads of Art and Spirituality
2 Dec 2022
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26 Nov 2022
Gopi Gajwani, a Modernist product of Partition
26 Nov 2022
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7 Nov 2022
Metaphors for Larger Ruptures: The collected art of WOMAN IS AS WOMEN DOES
7 Nov 2022
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2 Nov 2022
The Artist and The Anthropocene
2 Nov 2022
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8 Sept 2022
The Cityscape in M. Pravat’s ‘Concrete Dusk’
8 Sept 2022
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28 Jul 2022
A telling of our times: The art of Ashok Bhowmick
28 Jul 2022
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21 Jul 2022
Indian Art Under the Company’s Shadow
21 Jul 2022
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19 May 2022
Gameplay with an Artistic Heart
19 May 2022
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14 May 2022
Connecting the Dots: The art of Manisha Gera Baswani
14 May 2022
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30 Apr 2022
A Celebration of 1,300 years of Islamic Art
30 Apr 2022
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18 Apr 2022
‘I Float, You Rise’: The art of Rahul Chauhan
18 Apr 2022
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16 Apr 2022
TRUTH DREAM: Breaking Gender Norms through a Phantasmagoria of Lived Desire
16 Apr 2022
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9 Apr 2022
Art and Ecology: Listening to the voice of art collectives in Assam
9 Apr 2022
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7 Apr 2022
Flights of Fancy: Kothandaraman Sambandan’s Journey in Art
7 Apr 2022
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14 Feb 2022
The Dark Webs of Jogen Chowdhury
14 Feb 2022
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1 Feb 2022
Full Circle: Ahlawat Gunjan on the Wondrous World of Book Cover Design
1 Feb 2022
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10 Jan 2022
The Women and the Safety Pin
10 Jan 2022
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7 Jan 2022
A Mumbai inspired by ‘The New Yorker’
7 Jan 2022
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21 Dec 2021
With ‘Episteme’, Ten Indian Artists Translate the Language of Now
21 Dec 2021
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10 Dec 2021
The Studio as a Canvas: Sanoop P.C.’s Poetry of Impermanence
10 Dec 2021
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5 Nov 2021
The dawdling, gentle beauty of Aman Poddar’s patterns
5 Nov 2021
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1 Oct 2021
Full Circle: Shaleen Wadhwana on Art History in a Digital World
1 Oct 2021
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28 Sept 2021
Distorted Images: Caste, Sexuality, and History in the art of Keerthana Chandragiri
28 Sept 2021
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26 Aug 2021
Full Circle: Amardeep Behl on the Narrative Experiences in Space
26 Aug 2021
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27 Jul 2021
Raja Ravi Varma, Retold for Children
27 Jul 2021
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23 May 2021
The Transformational Joy of Art: In memoriam of Shakti Maira
23 May 2021
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5 Dec 2020
Life in the Bubbles: Dhruvi Acharya’s Pandemic Art
5 Dec 2020
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17 Nov 2020
Leaving Behind the Stardust: Inder Salim and a life sacrificed to art
17 Nov 2020
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7 May 2020
Masterpieces Under Our Feet
7 May 2020
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5 Feb 2020
Achieving Zero: The loud silences of art from the 2020 India Art Fair
5 Feb 2020
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Podcast
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17 Dec 2022
The Best of 2022 - What’s The Chakkar?
17 Dec 2022
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10 Nov 2022
G.N. Devy, Ahmer, and Laal Singh Chaddha - What’s The Chakkar?
10 Nov 2022
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19 Sept 2022
Jayanth Kaikini, Darlings, and Parekh & Singh - What’s The Chakkar?
19 Sept 2022
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18 Aug 2022
Shrayana Bhattacharya, Blackstratblues, and Indian Predator - What’s The Chakkar?
18 Aug 2022
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16 Jul 2022
Dinesh C. Sharma, Goatsmoke, and Panchayat - What’s The Chakkar?
16 Jul 2022
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16 Jun 2022
Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, Geetanjali Shree, and Shikhar - What’s The Chakkar?
16 Jun 2022
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23 May 2022
The Revisit Project, Guilty Minds, and Nev March - What’s The Chakkar?
23 May 2022
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26 Apr 2022
Josy Joseph, Rocket Boys, and Bloodywood - What’s The Chakkar?
26 Apr 2022
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25 Mar 2022
Mir Kashif Iqbal, Gehraiyaan, and Chandan Pandey - What’s The Chakkar?
25 Mar 2022
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20 Feb 2022
Krupa Ge, 83, and Aditi Ramesh - What’s The Chakkar?
20 Feb 2022
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22 Jan 2022
Decoupled, Amyt Datta, and Neel Mukherjee - What’s The Chakkar?
22 Jan 2022
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30 Dec 2021
The Best of 2021 - What’s The Chakkar?
30 Dec 2021
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29 Nov 2021
Mocaine, R.K. Narayan, and Sardar Udham - What’s The Chakkar?
29 Nov 2021
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28 Oct 2021
Wendy Doniger, Lagaan, and Dot. - What’s The Chakkar?
28 Oct 2021
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26 Sept 2021
Tinctures, The Disciple, and Suchitra Vijayan - What’s The Chakkar?
26 Sept 2021
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24 Aug 2021
S. Hareesh, Tejas, and The Family Man - What’s The Chakkar?
24 Aug 2021
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25 Jul 2021
Ray, Irfana & Taslina, and Albert Camus - What’s The Chakkar?
25 Jul 2021
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25 Jun 2021
Ramya Pothuri, Peter Wohlleben, and Pagglait - What's The Chakkar?
25 Jun 2021
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21 May 2021
Namit Arora, Project Mishram, and OK Computer - What's The Chakkar?
21 May 2021
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14 Apr 2021
Punk on Toast, Lori Gottlieb, and Deshdrohi - What's The Chakkar?
14 Apr 2021
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24 Mar 2021
Abdon Mech, AK VS AK, and Annie Zaidi - What's The Chakkar?
24 Mar 2021
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22 Feb 2021
Welcome Home, When Chai Met Toast, and Aravind Adiga - What's The Chakkar?
22 Feb 2021
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22 Jan 2021
Pradeep Damodaran, Lifafa, and Cargo - What's The Chakkar?
22 Jan 2021
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18 Dec 2020
Divine, Samit Basu, and Scam 1992 - What’s The Chakkar?
18 Dec 2020
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20 Nov 2020
Khwaab, Nisha Susan, and Mirzapur - What’s The Chakkar?
20 Nov 2020
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