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Who is an Indian woman? Laapataa Ladies Oscar entry shows she must be submissive too

Theres Sudeep - September 28, 2024

Kareena Kapoor has a film festival dedicated to her. She is still Bollywood’s trendsetter

Bangladesh has hit us where it hurts. Durga Puja will be incomplete without Hilsa

Indians have gone too far with fusion food. Gulab jamun tiramisu is perverse

Austin Colby as Raj in Broadway’s DDLJ takes away the best part — NRIs turning desi

Tina Das - September 14, 2022

Come Fall in Love – The DDLJ Musical at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego is colonial appropriation at best with Colby playing Raj.

The eyes, chico, they never lie — It’s Shefali Shah’s era and we are just living it

Tina Das - September 4, 2022

In a world of male character actors in OTT, be it Manoj Bajpayee, Pankaj Tripathi or Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Shefali Shah has quietly blazed her way to the top.

K-dramas can teach Bollywood a much-needed lesson on romance

Yashika Singla - September 4, 2022

From 'Crash Landing on You' to 'Run on,' five reasons why Bollywood simply can't beat progressive Korean Dramas.

If Tolkien’s work is the Bible, then Amazon Prime’s ‘Rings of Power’ is a litany of sins

Anjali Thomas - September 3, 2022

Rings of Power is glorified fan fiction with a multi-million dollar budget.

Gen Z freshers won’t slog 18 hours a day to show we love our work. CEOs need to get it

Sanskriti Bhatnagar - August 31, 2022

Bombay Shaving Company CEO Shantanu Deshpande's generation are perhaps bothered that Gen Z want a peaceful life at home. If this is 'rona-dhona', then so be it.

Rajinikanth to Dhanush, how Tamil stars have portrayed politics of ‘freebies’

Siddarth Muralidharan - August 28, 2022

In his 1993 film Valli, 'Superstar' Rajinikanth urged crowds to diss freebies and ask for employment.

R. Madhavan is slowly fashioning himself as the Akshay Kumar of the south

Siddarth Muralidharan - August 21, 2022

Madhavan is fast walking into a political hall of fame inhabited by stars such as Kangana Ranaut and Akshay Kumar.

Modi, Ajit Doval are firing up movie and show plots too – FIR, Uri, Shoorveer

Tina Das - August 11, 2022

FIR is an example of getting things right in a national security-based thriller. The PM and NSA are not cardboard cutouts.

Netflix’s Indian Matchmaking S2 is just as catty, spicy as the first, but less white gaze

Shubhangi Misra - August 10, 2022

Seema Aunty is back. Season two is proof that producers took serious note of the feedback the Netflix show received in season one.

What Xavier’s Kolkata did isn’t surprising. Catholic schools’ definition of decency is outdated

Shubhangi Misra - August 10, 2022

Stop packaging the perpetuation of orthodox values, often stemming from religion, as some sort of a regimen. It won’t stand in today’s world.

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Who is an Indian woman? Laapataa Ladies Oscar entry shows she must be submissive too

Kareena Kapoor has a film festival dedicated to her. She is still Bollywood’s trendsetter

Bangladesh has hit us where it hurts. Durga Puja will be incomplete without Hilsa

Indians have gone too far with fusion food. Gulab jamun tiramisu is perverse

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