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Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai Revisited: Not ‘Riots’ But ‘Calculated Attacks’

SHOMA A CHATTERJI | “Why should girls be forced to be the stakeholders of the family’s izzat? Why not men?”  The term “communal riots” has become a dangerous cliché especially in the volatile, religion-dominated political environment where secularism has become a… Continue Reading →

Mumbai- Film producer arrested for molesting, assaulting and threatening an actress #Vaw

| Hajra Bi This starlet paid Rs 8 lakh to bag the lead in a film, only to realise after shooting that the film had been edited in such a way that it looked like a soft porn movie with… Continue Reading →

A decade later: A film on Lokmanya Tilak was never made but funds squandered; files missing, babus spared, reveals RTI

Vinita Deshmukh    This story dates back to 2001 when a special cell called Commemoration Bureau was set up by the Ministry of Culture, with a Rs200 crore fund to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Indian Republic, wherein a… Continue Reading →

Actor Daisy Irani Reveals She Was Raped As a Child on shoot in Madras #MeToo #Vaw

THE SECRET IN HER EYES By Khalid Mohamed Courageous star confronts pain, goes public sixty years after the traumaIndia’s best-known child star of the 1950s, Daisy Irani, whose moppet curls and saucer-eyed charm captivated generations of film lovers, has revealed… Continue Reading →

One of the finest musicians in the world, Ustad Bismillah Khan

All You Need To Know About Ustad Bismillah Khan, The Shehnai Maestro  by Sumana Nandy | Shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan with his grandchildren NEW DELHI:  Bharat Ratna Ustad Bismillah Khan was born as Qamaruddin Khan on 21st march, 1916 in a traditional Muslim family of musicians… Continue Reading →

Controversy’s favourite child: 5 times Naresh Agrawal embarrassed his party

After a snub by the Samajwadi Party for the nomination to the Rajya Sabha, Naresh Agrawal on Monday joined the BJP in presence of senior party leaders. Agrawal, a long time aide of SP patron Mulayam Singh Yadav, had supported… Continue Reading →

Sufi singer Pyarelal Wadali of Wadali Brothers dies of cardiac arrest in Amritsar #RIP

Ustad Puranchand Wadali’s younger brother Pyarelal Wadali died at a hospital in Amritsar on Friday morning. The famous Punjabi Sufi singing duo has sung some soulful film songs as well Pyarelal Wadali, one of the legendary singers of the famed… Continue Reading →

#WomensDay- Eight must-see documentaries about remarkable women

From India’s lady cops to Hip Hop Hijabis – Al Jazeera’s documentary picks for International Women’s Day, and every day. To mark International Women’s Day, we’ve compiled a list of our must-see documentaries featuring brave and determined women from all… Continue Reading →

Bollywood’s famous Shammi Aunty passes away #RIP

MUMBAI: Veteran character actor for nearly six decades, Nargis Rabadi, popularly known as ‘Shammi Aunty’ in the industry, died at her home here late on Monday, a family friend said. She was 87. According to Bollywood personality Ashok Shekhar, she had… Continue Reading →

No ‘Hey Ram’ in title for film on Gandhian ideology

Censors clear film four days before release with truncated title, Savarkar’s name deleted and a photograph replaced | Roshmila.Bhattacharya On June 15, 2007, the United Nations General Assembly voted to establish October 2, Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary as the International Day… Continue Reading →

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