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Mani Kaul interview on Ritwik Ghatak is a lesson in appreciating ‘Titas Ekti Nadir Naam’ and cinema
The filmmaker’s introduction to the broadcast of Ritwik Ghatak’s masterpiece is a primer on Indian cinematic forms.
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When India began to worry about Iranians settling in Bombay
Archival records show how New Delhi weighed visas, diplomacy and domestic anxieties as Iranian migrants sought to build lives in 1960s India.
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Interview: ‘Ritwik Ghatak was far ahead of his time, addressing issues that remain very real today’
A conversation with Shamya Dasgupta, editor of an anthology that celebrates the Bengali filmmaker’s birth centenary.
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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’
A conversation with the Oscar-nominated director of the documentaries ‘The Perfect Neighbor’ and ‘The Devil Is Busy’.
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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’
An excerpt from a book of conversations about the acclaimed actor by film critic Shubhra Gupta.
2026-07-03