If you are looking for a historical perspective on the Pandit exodus, its causes and effects, then Shikara isn’t the film for you ONE DAY in the late 1980s Srinagar, a young couple is asked, at random, to walk down a garden path as extras in a film shoot. Kashmir was the beating heart of […]

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Voices belonging to the LGBTQ community share their stories of struggle “I GOT sick of the intense pressure to get married and finally told my mother that I have no interest in girls. You know what her retort was? “Why? Do you like boys then?’”. Today, Deepak chuckles at the memory, recounting how his courage […]

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The sights and sounds of the Old City of Jerusalem entice visitors — not just its historical ruins and sites that tell fascinating tales, but also the enduring connections with India “Are you Indian?” is a question that almost any Indian tourist is likely to be asked often in Israel. Not just because Israelis love […]

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Filmmaker Shonali Bose opens up about her personal tragedy, the ongoing protests around India, censorship and more AFTER MAKING her directorial debut with Amu (2005), writer-director Shonali Bose went on to direct two critically acclaimed films, Margarita with a Straw(2015) and The Sky Is Pink (2019). With these, Bose made a reputation for herself as […]

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Sanitation worker Ravi died after inhaling toxic fumes while another worker landed in the hospital. Neither had any protective gear BARELY METRES away from where Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a campaign rally at Delhi’s CBD Ground on Monday, a sanitation worker had died while cleaning a sewer two days earlier. Ravi, 24, was contracted […]

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The budget was long in speech and short on the assumptions that went into its making “ASSUMPTIONS ARE the mother of all screw-ups,” goes an old English saying. The central government budget, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, earlier today rests, like any other budget, on assumptions — many of them. The question as always […]

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Jojo Rabbit teaches us about the price collectively paid for fascism in the past. The movie is a visceral reminder of the past intruding on our present as we encounter violent right-wing racism and communal violence around us DIRECTED BY Taika Waititi and based on the book Caging Skies by Christine Leunens, Jojo Rabbit is […]

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Kamla Lowe’s husband died in a flying accident in 1962. At 98, she’s still waging a legal battle for pension the Air Force owes her KAMLA LOWE is 98. But don’t be fooled by her age. She’s sprightly as ever, and tuned into what’s happening around her. Kamla follows the news and is therefore aware […]

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