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Nawaid Anjum

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  • Culture, Lifestyle, and Entertainment Journalist, Freelance
New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh
As seen in: MSN India, Hindustan Times, Substack, The Indian Express, Firstpost, Mint, The Hindu, Mint Lounge, Outlook (India), Financial Express and
Covers:  Literature, art, culture
Culture, lifestyle and entertainment journalist. words: @httweets, @thepunchmag Ex-The Asian Age, The Indian Express and Outlook.

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Nawaid Anjum’s Biography

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Freelance feature writer-editor. Formerly with The Indian Express and The Asian Age. Bylines in Hindustan Times, The Indian Express, The Asian Age and The Punch Magazine. Translator and poet. Poems in a Sahitya Akademi anthology, curated by Sudeep Sen.

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Interview: Urdu scholar and critic, Gopi Chand Narang

Interview: Urdu scholar and critic, Gopi Chand Narang

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Vikrant Patankar on making films, and figuring out how far an obsession can take him

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Old Dream: For the Love of Dune, Vikrant Patankar’s feature-length personal documentary is inspired by Denis Villeneuve’s Dune films, deserts, Hans Zimmer’s music and the act of going to the movies Vikrant Patankar likes the word ‘regardless’. It keeps turning up when he talks about his work. Make the thing regardless of whether anyone is waiting for it. Follow an idea even when it does not quite fit the job description. Make a film before you know who will fund it.
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The iPhone 18 Pro Max is a great phone, but is it worth replacing yours?

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The iPhone 18 Pro Max is faster, lasts longer and finally gives serious photographers more say over the image. But it is also heavy, all-too-familiar and heavily priced There comes a point with every mature piece of technology when improvement becomes increasingly harder to see. If you have been using the iPhone, you would know this: its screen was already excellent, the cameras were already very good, apps opened instantly and video looked superb. Battery anxiety had, by and large, disappeared.
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Jenjum Gadi interview: ‘My village in Arunachal is my identity, Delhi made me who I’m today’

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Jenjum Gadi; Ngok Dolu,’ which means ‘My Village’ in Galo, brings together more than 30 new works drawn from Jenjum’s childhood in Tirbin, Arunachal Pradesh. Photos: Gallery Vayu At Gallery Vayu on Lodhi Road in Delhi, Jenjum Gadi has rebuilt a version of his village in brass. Against the gallery’s deep green and white walls are bamboo houses, paddy fields, vegetables like bitter gourd and lady’s fingers, birds, fruits, trees, clouds and fragments of village life.
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