“When I went to Islampur for a Bachelor in Arts degree course, I started attending public meetings organised by Bharat and Gail. … “The film is more about Gail, but Bharat is a character too,” Waghmare said.
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When India began to worry about Iranians settling in Bombay
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Interview: ‘Ritwik Ghatak was far ahead of his time, addressing issues that remain very real today’
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Why a film on scholar Gail Omvedt: ‘Dalit activists have always been ignored by cinema’
“When I went to Islampur for a Bachelor in Arts degree course, I started attending public meetings organised by Bharat and Gail. … “The film is more about Gail, but Bharat is a character too,” Waghmare said.
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Geeta Gandbhir interview: We don’t make art to please everyone, we make art to make a statement’
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IFFK 2023: Sepideh Farsi talks about her dazzling animated film The Siren
Sepideh Farsi’s period drama will be screened at the International Film Festival of Kerala.
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Lionel Mess: Old, slow and short, how does he still dominate football?
He defies the belief that what makes an athlete great is mostly about their body: speed, height, strength, fitness.
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In film ‘I, Poppy’, the heady lure and crashing reality of opium cultivation
Of course, I could not force him to not do what he wanted to do.We were living with the family, since the closest hotel was a few hours away. … He is a smart guy, he intuitively got what we were doing – that it’s the system that is making them go at each other. It was okay from that point.
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Nobel Prize winner Abhijit Banerjee’s prescription for Indian economy
The economist, who was awarded the Nobel prize on Monday, spoke just last week about what Indian policymakers need to do.
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Tigmanshu Dhulia on Irrfan: ‘His observation of life was very surgical, very meticulous’
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