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Fashion Takes Flight: The Evolution of the 'Airport Look' and What It Represents Today
An excerpt from Shefalee Vasudev’s book, 'Stories We Wear', details how airport fashion transformed from casual travel to calculated performance.
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'Unmechanical: Ritwik Ghatak in 50 Fragments': A Document of Revolutionary Imagination
Long before parallel cinema became fashionable, Bengali auteur Ritwik Ghatak proposed a film about Vietnam shot entirely in Bengal. This 1968 essay reveals the vision of the director who changed Indian cinema.
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In Praise of Chaos: Mihir Chitre in Conversation with Abhishek Chaubey
An excerpt from a new book shows how frantic creativity, happy accidents and painful rewrites lead to some of Hindi cinema’s most memorable screenplays.
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What Is Mandira Bedi Reading This Month?
Mandira Bedi’s reading list reveals the lenses through which she approaches healing, becoming and possibility.
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What Is Actor Shefali Shah Reading This Month?
How Shefali Shah’s reading list reveals the mind behind her most unforgettable characters.
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Konkona Sensharma's Favourite Books: What Is The Actor-Director Reading This Month?
The actor-director shares five haunting, beautiful books that invariably echo the themes of her work in films — identity, memory, resilience and truth.
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Raj Khosla’s Untold Story: From Guru Dutt’s Protégé to Bollywood’s Enigma
Amborish Roychoudhury explores how director and producer Raj Khosla’s artistry outlived his fame in this authorised filmmaker biography.
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Book Excerpt | Breathing Life into Muzaffar Ali’s 'Umrao Jaan'
Muzaffar Ali leads us gently into a realm where, over 44 years ago, he sensed a presence called 'Umrao Jaan'
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Author Yogesh Maitreya Speaks Out On Cinema and Identity
A new book examines Indian cinema through an anti-caste lens, with distorted histories and dehumanisation in film and theatre traditions critically explored, including the rise of OTT platforms.
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The Must List: What is Tillotama Shome Reading Currently?
The actor-turned-producer shares her current reading list.
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What is Sonam Kapoor Ahuja Reading Currently?
From retellings of the classics to insights on faith and love, this is what's on the star’s bookshelf this month.
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The Last Years of Satyajit Ray
After 'Ganashatru' and 'Shakha Proshakha,' Ray was advised by doctors to avoid outdoor shoots. This presented a dilemma to the virtuoso director, who passed away before he could complete shooting for what would’ve been his last film in 1992.
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Ila Arun on The Making of 'Choli Ke Peeche' And The Post-Release Moral Panic
The following is an excerpt from 'Parde Ke Peechhey,' an autobiography of Ila Arun as told to Anjula Bedi, published by Penguin Random House India.
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The Ultimate Duel between Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen
A war of letters ensued in The Statesman newspaper following Satyajit Ray's scathing review of Mrinal Sen’s Akash Kusum (1965). It ended in Ray parting ways with his closest rival for a lifetime.
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