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AI can release new music by dead artists. ‘Musicians need to think about the afterlife’

CEO of Fantracks Music, Ty Roberts, gave a talk titled ‘Art & Digital Immortality’  at the Synapse India Conclave in Gurugram.

Tale of 2 drains—how Delhi’s drinking water flows dangerously close to Haryana sewage drain 6

The pollution monitoring body informed NGT that water samples from multiple locations on the DD-8, a freshwater channel, showed “a high pollution load”.

Dawood Ibrahim is a gift that keeps giving. Bollywood’s O’Romeo to Black Friday

Books, bhais, and Bollywood. Every Mumbai gangster film leads back to Dawood. With O'Romeo, Bollywood is mining new — but still D-adjacent— antiheroes.

‘Nukkad Naatak’ makers faced many rejections in Bollywood. Mamdani inspired them to go solo

The independent film will open on 100 screens across India. The filmmakers are confident that their ‘audience will watch Nukkad Naatak over The Kerala Story 2.’

Asha Parekh set the tone for 1970s glamour in Aan Milo Sajna

‘Achha toh hum chalte hain’—it’s the songs that stuck around in the 1970 film Aan Milo Sajna.

Promo video of highly anticipated collaboration of Rajnikanth, Kamal Haasan launched

Chennai, Feb 21 (PTI) In a major development that has sent film fans into a frenzy, production house Red Giant Movies on Saturday...

Wanted to break out, reinvent myself: Vishal Bhardwaj on ‘O’ Romeo’

New Delhi, Feb 21 (PTI) Wrapped in "John Wick" and Quentin Tarantino style action sequences, "O' Romeo" is a "deep and unusual" love story...

Supriya Pathak and Ratna Pathak Shah tackle obesity stigma in new ad. ‘It’s not a joke’

The ad by Lilly India is opening the door to a weight loss conversation. It features links to research papers from the World Health Organisation and Columbia University.

What French filmmaker saw in Gorakhpur jail. Muslims one side, lower caste people near toilet

Valentin Hénault came to India in 2023 to work on a documentary project about caste discrimination and was arrested by Gorakhpur police. He's now published a book about it titled 'I Had an Indian Dream: In the Hell of Gorakhpur Prison'.

Indian philanthropy rides on donations from ordinary households. ‘Rs 540 billion a year’

A new study published by the Ashoka University challenges the long-held assumption that organised philanthropy in India is driven primarily by institutional or CSR funding.

On Camera

Life in Delhi isn’t easy for Northeast Indians. Racism is always round the corner

Racism is a problem for privileged mainlanders only when it's meted out to them abroad. In their own backyard, it's normalised as 'I was just kidding. Chill yaar'.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

IAF’s Tejas fleet undergoes ‘maintenance check’, decision on airframe yet to be taken

The 7 February incident involving Tejas aircraft caused severe damage to its frame. IAF and HAL are working together as part of the Board of Inquiry (BoI) to probe the incident.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.