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Mumbai redevelopment has a human cost. People vanish with buildings: Author Sidharth Bhatia

Sidharth Bhatia, author of ‘Mumbai: A Million Islands’, was in conversation with journalist Rishi Majumder at Delhi’s Kunzum bookstore.

‘Working Girls’ asks a difficult question—What if sex workers don’t want to be rescued?

From dancers in Madurai to ASHA workers protesting in Kerala and interacting with police job aspirants in Mumbai, Paromita Vohra’s film presents the work that we often fail to see.

Regime change is futile. There are no shortcuts to security, says ex-IPS Anju Gupta

Former IPS officer Anju Gupta was in conversation with former IB director Rajeev Jain at the launch of her book, ‘Glocal Terror’, at the India International Centre in New Delhi.

India’s urbanisation policy now centres on demolition and displacement, says Aravind Unni

A contributor to City Limits: The Crisis of Urbanisation, Aravind Unni called the new urban model a ‘demolition city'. He said the govt has weaponised urban policies for displacement and called it ‘Hindutva Urbanism'.

Effects of the Partition are not just limited to 1947. They can still be felt today

Titled ‘Recalibrating Partition’, the discussion at the India International Centre brought together perspectives from across the country to rethink Partition.

‘India’s water policy has suffered from disciplinary silos,’ says PK Mishra

Arunabha Ghosh, Parameswaran Iyer, and Richard Damania’s new book 'Water, Nature, Progress'  analyses India's water crisis with a call to action.

Nehru, Mughals, Dhurandhar, Narcos & Kargil. A Delhi show on the great Indian blame game

Directed and performed by Paperclip’s co-founders, 'Blame it on Nehru' was performed for the first time in Delhi on 22 March at the Bangiya Samaj Mancha.

People think about their sex lives in terms of jargon. Agents of Ishq wants to change that

When men write sex scenes, Paromita Vohra finds an overuse of metaphor & description. 'It’s too much like an action scene,' she said during a conversation on her anthology, Love, Sex and India.

A global Buddhist monastery thrived in Mumbai for 1,400 years. ‘Messages from the past’

Mumbai's Kanheri Caves were a flourishing Buddhist monastery until the 16th century. A DAG heritage walk titled 'Tracing Stone & Shadow' cast fresh light on their history.

Kamal Haasan warns of the dangers of ‘hatriotism’. ‘It diminishes the nation’

The launch of India and Her Futures, a collection of essays by Gopalkrishna Gandhi, opened with a 7-minute documentary that traced the 'biography of the bullet' that killed MK Gandhi.

On Camera

Where did Ramayana spend Rs 4000 cr budget? Ranbir Kapoor’s de-ageing or copycat rakshasas

The VFX effects are what you’d expect from a run-of-the-mill video game or a mediocre fantasy show. But a film that supposedly cost thousands of crores? The audience deserves more.

RBI trading ban rocks $149 billion-a-day offshore rupee market

The central bank has rolled out some of its toughest measures in more than a decade to curb speculation & support the currency, which has been setting successive record lows this year.

India sharpens foreign media outreach in post Op Sindoor world, new strategy in play

Three-day conflict between India and Pakistan underscored the growing importance of information warfare as a critical domain alongside conventional military operations.

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.