With new allegations emerging of a VIP getting away, murdered receptionist’s parents say justice remains elusive even after meeting CM Pushkar Singh Dhami
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Four of the five accused activists who were granted bail by the Supreme Court on January 5, 2026 in the Delhi riots larger conspiracy case were released from prison on January 7. While Gulfisha Fatima, Meeran Haider and Shifa Ur Rehman were released from Tihar jail, Mohd. Saleem Khan walked out of Mandoli prison. Families and friends of the released activists were seen celebrating with flowers and sweets on the occasion in front of the prison complex on Wednesday night. The four accused had been incarcerated for nearly six years. The trial in the case registered under FIR 59/2020 is yet to begin.
A poetic, stream-of-consciousness meditation in which Friederike Mayröcker transforms a lifetime into pure writing, presenting existence itself as a continuous act of poetry.
Nationwide protests grip the country as economic collapse, strict religious rules, and international tensions fuel public anger.
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We dedicate this issue to those who venture into the elsewhere, to people made of paper and to those who imagine and dismantle entire worlds for the sake of love.
A hidden inner refuge guides us, preserving the clarity and calm the outer world cannot offer.
In Dreams. There is no Alice. There is no Wonderland. There is wonder. And there is arousal. Of the imaginary. A tactility in the text that conveys the illicit and the unmentionable.
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It is difficult to discern the difference between real space and fictional space. The writer needs the artistic skill to fuse the two.
Amid aggressive public discourse and political pressure, literature survives as a quiet retreat—preserving silenced voices, resisting instant reactions, and allowing writers the freedom to wander, reflect, and reinvent meaning
Today, as we struggle to push back against poisonous ideas of the divine, even as we struggle to find love and sahanubhuti to navigate our very harsh realities, the film does what the very best art should–it presses sharply on our pain points and briefly manages to release them.
The acts of breathing in and out become compositional devices—intervals through which rhythm and exhaustion surface as material conditions for speaking and being.
Violence is endlessly recyclable. Stop torture. Stop bulldozer injustice. Remember that we live in one world. Remember that the body forgets nothing, nor does the earth.
Some homes break free from the linear passage of time, from codes that perform perfection, from everything that is a supposition or an assumption.
True longing alchemises us. As the experience of incompleteness eats into our innards, it births us, gradually, into a new wholeness. And one day, it would seem, we no longer see any conflict between earth and sky, now and forever. The divide has been healed. We are home. Elsewhere is right here.
A meditation on love, memory and migration, where the search for home becomes less about a place and more about building belonging through care and shared histories.
The piece explores displacement, resistance and the meaning of home beyond walls and land.
An essay tracing lost memories of Bhojpuri women who migrated under indenture from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to Suriname in the 19th century
A hasty, forgetful walk through Osnabrück transforms streets where past and present meet in moments of reflection, and timelessness.
This space which I want to create, unlike that of the real world, has to be open to possibilities, to dialogues, to alternate viewpoints, and defined by an underlying sense of respect.
In the end, a place in a story is true not because it exists on a map, but because it is the only place that specific character could have ever been born in.
To engage with landscape today is to reject superficial beauty and cultivate inner vision — a deliberate peeling back of layers to reveal the stories of struggle embedded within.
Yousuf Saeed examines humanity, control, and hope among the last survivors of a ruined planet.
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With new allegations emerging of a VIP getting away, murdered receptionist’s parents say justice remains elusive even after meeting CM Pushkar Singh Dhami
As Netflix marks 10 years in India, its top leadership highlights why local storytelling, multilingual content and constant product evolution are central to its global strategy.
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In an era wary of earnestness, Song Sung Blue (2025) commits to it fully. The result is a film of humour, ache and conviction, one that believes in ordinary people and trusts the audience to do the same.
Co-directed with Mark Obenhaus, the chronicle of Seymour Hersh opens sharply but zooms out too loosely
A glossy adaptation that promises a twisty whodunnit but collapses under the weight of its own melodrama, clichés and narrative excess
Parasakthi Censor Row: Sivakarthikeyan Starrer Granted U/A Certificate; Set To Release On January 10
The CBFC has granted Sivakarthikeyan-starrer Parasakthi a UA 16+ certificate. It will be released as scheduled on January 10.
Co-directed with Mark Obenhaus, the chronicle of Seymour Hersh opens sharply but zooms out too loosely
A glossy adaptation that promises a twisty whodunnit but collapses under the weight of its own melodrama, clichés and narrative excess
Parasakthi Censor Row: Sivakarthikeyan Starrer Granted U/A Certificate; Set To Release On January 10
The CBFC has granted Sivakarthikeyan-starrer Parasakthi a UA 16+ certificate. It will be released as scheduled on January 10.
The Madras High Court ruled in favour of Jana Nayagan, by directing the CBFC to issue a U/A certificate to Vijay starrer.
Across decades, films return to the newsroom to interrogate journalism’s promise and limitations, oscillating between satire, spectacle and documentary realism.
Long before “Slow Cinema” became a curatorial disposition, Tarr had already committed himself to duration as a political and aesthetic position. Across his works, he shaped a cinema of attrition and accumulation.
Few losses in the Indian film industry will remain as irreparable as Khan’s, who is still counted among the most gifted actors across the globe for the conviction with which he embodied each character.
At 65, Supriya Pathak Kapur reflects on a life shaped by artistic curiosity and quiet resilience.
The European Film Academy, of which Béla Tarr had been a member since 1997, said that the filmmaker died "after a long and serious illness."
On his 59th birthday, we look at how Rahman didn't just mobilise music from different parts of the world, but also brought global music production techniques and values to Indian music.
Auditions, voice work, study, reinvention and lived experience—that’s how actors continue to work beyond releases and visibility.
The strategic insertion of the past is no longer incidental in Bollywood films. It has become a deliberate trope in contemporary filmmaking. However, it also exposes a creative fatigue at the industry’s core.
Marking a significant milestone, Deepika Padukone celebrated her 40th birthday on January 5, 2026.
Film music from the 70s can be characterised through Burman’s perennially popular upbeat tunes that have outlived the films. However, seldom mentioned are his compositions that are soft, reflective and thoughtful, etched in film history just as permanently.
Once a thriving parallel industry, Bollywood’s lookalikes have gone from single-screen staples to social media sensations
Today, as we struggle to push back against poisonous ideas of the divine, even as we struggle to find love and sahanubhuti to navigate our very harsh realities, the film does what the very best art should–it presses sharply on our pain points and briefly manages to release them.
The Housemaid (2025) offers a guilty pleasure with its unhinged narrative turns—delivering a sense of mischievous satisfaction that is hard to resist.
Soumyajit Ghosh Dastidar's film creates a surreal, dream-like world to explore identity and the courage required to accept oneself and others.
From demolished bastis to named libraries of resistance, feminist spaces in India reveal how access, class, and gender decide who is allowed to linger.
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