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How Mayank Jain’s debut Nietzsche Ki Kutai wraps India’s difficult truths with humour, warmth, and wit
From quirky tea-shop spies to nuanced portraits of everyday women, the unapologetically desi stories in Mayank Jain’s debut collection, set across different timelines, offer a deeply personal, familiar reflection of India that stays with you
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Made in India: A Titan Story composer Abhishek Nailwal on why great music will always find its audience
The versatile composer-singer-lyricist opens up about his journey from famous ad jingles to scoring Made in India: A Titan Story, why he thinks AI is an inevitable technological evolution, and why art will always reign above everything else
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Dua Lipa’s The Manifesto Library: Why the pop star wants you to read banned or censored books
By bringing her new Manifesto Library to the BABELL international book festival at the iconic Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal, Dua Lipa and her Service95 cultural platform are taking a bold stand against global censorship, spotlighting historically challenged texts to fiercely protect the freedom to read banned books
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Main, Sifar: In Pankaj Mridul’s poems, zero is not emptiness but the place where self begins
In Main, Sifar, Sandhya Mridul gathers the Hindi and English poems of her late brother Pankaj Mridul, a private, searching voice that turns hurt, doubt and silence into spare, unsettling verse.
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‘A Haiku of a Still Mind’: Summer interlude with Satish Gupta in Ahmedabad
At Bespoke Art Gallery, Devin Gawarvala presents a quietly immersive Satish Gupta exhibition that moves beyond spectacle, inviting viewers into a world of stillness, repetition, material memory and contemplative looking
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Politics of hostel rooms: What student rooms reveal about class, gender, aspiration and loneliness
Behind the small beds, shared cupboards and late-night silences of student hostels lie larger stories of class, gender, aspiration, loneliness and the unequal freedoms that shape young lives
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How Curry Barker’s Obsession finds its real victim in the girl trapped inside a lonely boy’s wish
Curry Barker’s Obsession is not frightening merely because of its supernatural curse, but because it turns a lonely boy’s wish to be loved into a horror story about consent, control and the woman left to suffer for his desire
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From Fatma Begum to Gen Z filmmakers: How women have changed Hindi cinema in the last 100 years
Since Fatma Begum’s Bulbul-e-Paristan premiered in 1926, each generation of women directors has pushed cinema into new territory, from fantasy and parallel cinema to feminist dramas, OTT experiments and global acclaim
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Epidemic: A short story by Aditya Kushwaha
What if the next epidemic did not spread fear, but empathy? The Epidemic follows three lonely strangers in imagining a world where people can connect.
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How Joe Sacco evokes the unhealed wounds of Muzaffarnagar riots in The Once and Future Riot
Joe Sacco’s The Once and Future Riot looks back at the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots through the stories of those who lived through them, chronicling how communal violence upended the lives of people who could never fully return home
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Thilothama.com: Speculative fiction by J. Avaran
Thilothama.com, a work of speculative fiction, tells the story of Su, a young engineer whose attachment to a companion chat-bot gradually grows into something neither of them anticipated.
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Brown review: Karisma Kapoor gives this Kolkata noir its aching centre
Abhinay Deo’s thriller works better as a portrait of a wounded woman and a morally decaying city than as a murder mystery, but Karisma Kapoor’s Rita Brown makes it gripping, graceful and worth watching
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