Once a stronghold of dissent, universities across India are now facing a suffocating environment of penalisation, surveillance and censorship, leading to a decline in campus politics. However, a few unions and organisations are allowed to thrive.
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Students rebel because they are most alive to the meaning of freedom.
Once a stronghold of dissent, universities across India are now facing a suffocating environment of penalisation, surveillance and censorship, leading to a decline in campus politics. However, a few unions and organisations are allowed to thrive.
Why is it that one is eligible to vote at the age of 18, but no politics is permitted on campuses?
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Kiran Desai's latest novel slyly scans the collision of India and the world through a postponed romance.
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Anand Teltumbde’s book offers us a significant insight into prisons, those who run them and how they contribute to the deterioration of judicial processing.
Jodhpur is doing some heavy-lifting on the cultural front.
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Her jokes about her family and Indians at large have been raking it in, but the question is, are they past their expiry date?
Wake up Dead Man, the latest Knives Out installation, asks important questions with politics and religion at the heart of it. Josh O’Connor shines as a priest and shares wonderful chemistry with Daniel Craig.
Bison Kaalamaadan (2025) adapts fragments from the real-life story of Manathi Ganesan and extends beyond biography. It becomes a requiem for those who gave it their all, to lose to a system stacked against them.
In a storied career, Om Puri bagged two National Awards, a Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Best Actor prize, a BAFTA nomination, and was also made an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Wake up Dead Man, the latest Knives Out installation, asks important questions with politics and religion at the heart of it. Josh O’Connor shines as a priest and shares wonderful chemistry with Daniel Craig.
Bison Kaalamaadan (2025) adapts fragments from the real-life story of Manathi Ganesan and extends beyond biography. It becomes a requiem for those who gave it their all, to lose to a system stacked against them.
In a storied career, Om Puri bagged two National Awards, a Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Best Actor prize, a BAFTA nomination, and was also made an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire
There’s a lot to admire in Good Fortune (2025). Its quiet sincerity, the way it commits to simplicity while handling such chaotic inner worlds, feels like a love letter to life’s unpolished truths. There’s a tenderness in Ansari’s humility before the unpredictable theatre of human existence.
Keerthiswaran's supposed romantic comedy suffers from a severe identity crisis and that is not its biggest problem
On Smita Patil’s birthday, we take a look at few of her songs from her final years of life to remember traces of her laughter, anguish, sensuality, and mischief.
Neeraj Ghaywan's Homebound is a rare example of working-class lives depicted without voyeurism or as decor
While Tamannaah Bhatia’s Avantika in Baahubali: The Beginning is simply a role in a fictional film, an actress’s choice to inhabit a character still leaves them with certain responsibilities to the film, to the audiences and to themselves—raising questions of intent and complicity.
Hard-hitting and nuanced, these documentaries probe Hindu nationalism, the RSS, and BJP politics, exploring communalism, state power, and social tensions through history, personal stories, and investigative insight.
Bollywood’s music has shifted from messages of unity to endorsing right-wing politics, reflecting a deeper change in the industry’s role and influence.
Théodore Pellerin and Archie Madekwe twist a fan-star wrestle into a dance of seduction and danger in this latest MUBI release
Bhutanese musician Sonam Dorji spoke to Vineetha Mokkil at the Jodhpur RIFF about his efforts to preserve his homeland’s rich musical tradition.
About halfway into Paul Thomas Anderson's film, you keep waiting for the political message to hit you hard. But what you get is incoherent blotches of this and that on the screen.
It is because Bachchan is so meticulous, dedicated and tireless that even on his 83rd birthday, instead of just discussing a legend, we are talking of an actor who, even now, is perhaps filming the next episode of KBC or facing the camera for an upcoming film.
Amma’s Pride is political, tender and riotous. Over fifty screenings worldwide have moved audiences to tears, ignited conversations, and transformed indifference into empathy and advocacy.
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On her 71st birthday, here is celebrating Rekha, who has arguably been the only actress to have straddled so seamlessly worlds of the alternate, mainstream and middle of the road cinema.
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Kali Puja 2025: How Kolkata Celebrates The Goddess Of Power And Protection
As Diwali approaches, tables in Tamil Nadu gleam with sweets like Okkarai (or Ukkarai), a humble yet heartwarming festive treat. Made with roasted moong dal, rice flour, jaggery, and ghee, this delicately sweet preparation features simple ingredients transformed into something truly special. Okkarai is a traditional Diwali sweet made by steaming a mixture of roasted […]
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