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Horror film ‘Bokshi’ flips the wicked witch concept—gore, folklore, and feminine power

Director Bhargav Saikia’s supernatural horror film ‘Bokshi’ will have its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025.

Witch on a broomstick—how the medieval invention came about and survived over the years

Although witch-hunting ended – at least in Europe and North America – in the 18th century, the image of witches flying on brooms endures.

Bengal woman whose mother was branded ‘witch’ now helps save same villagers with O2 delivery

20 years back, Churki Hansda's mother was nearly lynched and the family driven out of their home in a Birbhum village. Today, she drives an old van through the area, saving lives.

This documentary tells a common but unheard & tragic story of a ‘witch’ in India

'Testimony of Ana' follows Anaben Pawar in a Gujarat village where, following her father's death and her inheriting his property, villagers brand her a witch and harass her.

Chudail cartoon is YouTube hit even as Kangana Ranaut, Rhea Chakraborty are victimised

Women are killed because people label them as chudails. But Indians didn’t see the problem when Farhan Akhtar shouted ‘chudail alert’ in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara.

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Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

We were given free hand, no restrictions placed on us: IAF chief on Op Sindoor

New Delhi: Indian Air Force chief Air Marshal A.P. Singh Saturday made it clear that there were no restrictions imposed by the political class...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.