Once Upon A Time In Mumbai: The textile mills strike in Mumbai, that led to a lockout and mass unemployment in the early eighties, had a long term impact…
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The Mark Of Classic: It’s 41 years since the release of the original Golmaal (1979), Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s no-frills comedy, that remains a Bollywood classic. Starring Amol Palekar, Utpal Dutt, Dina Pathak,…
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The Count Of Hotel Metropol: If a book remains on the bestseller charts for so long, it demands to be read. And after completing Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow…
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In a currently popular web series, Panchayat, set in a village in Uttar Pradesh, the Pradhan of the gram panchayat is Manju Devi (played by Neena Gupta), but the actual work is…
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Women have accomplished much, though there are still some major battles being fought over gender parity at work, and the resistance to sexual harassment is gathering strength. However, there are…
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Dead Man Walking: James McBride’s new novel, Deacon King Kong, set in a crumbling Brooklyn housing project in the late sixties, wraps up the history of immigrant and black lives…
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She Laughs! As a tribute to Nimmi who passed away on March 25, a look at one of her last films– a rare comedy in a career packed with tragic…
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Butter Fingers: After a few missteps Netflix is inching towards getting its act together as far as original movie content for India goes. The latest, Maska, gets some things right,…
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As a tribute to the medical profession in the midst of a pandemic, a look at one of the earliest female doctors in Hindi cinema: In films of the old…
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The Name’s IQ: Isaiah Quintabe, better known as IQ, is an unlicensed private eye and the hero of Joe Ide’s crime series, the fourth of which, a hugely entertaining Hi…