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Independent journalist, co-founder: Elsewhere - elsewherefoundation.in Previously with India Today, IANS, HT. Words in Scroll, The Quint, The Tribune
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A home for Golshifteh Farahani

A home for Golshifteh Farahani

India Today — You exist. Hearing this, she keeps quiet for a while. "Really?" she smiles. Looks straight and then looks away.
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Raghu Rai - Rhythm of the image

Raghu Rai - Rhythm of the image

India Today — A faint cut-light falls close to his desk. There is Hariprasad Chaurasia that wafts in background. He wants the volume just perfect. There is also chai, the kind that is just perfect to dip biscuits in. A certain silence sits on his face. Like always, he is not in a hurry - for anything.
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Filmmaker Sanal Sasidharan - On the Road to thrill

Filmmaker Sanal Sasidharan - On the Road to thrill

India Today — 'For me, the controversy around S Durga might be a closed chapter, but this does not mean that the situation has gotten better for filmmakers,' says Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, Filmmaker. He has this strange quality of looking at his cinema from a distance.
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Actor Pankaj Kapur - Return of the native

Actor Pankaj Kapur - Return of the native

India Today — The icy coldness of thekedaar in Tamas. The menacing Abbaji in Maqbool. The angry and some times helpless Dr Dipankar Roy in Ek Doctor Ki Maut. But he stays away from talking about these roles. He isn't interested in reliving the glorious past.
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Playwright Mahesh Dattani - Bringing Into Play

Playwright Mahesh Dattani - Bringing Into Play

India Today — On one level, the theatre of Mahesh Dattani is issue-based. His plays grapple with same-sex love and communal tension, representing deftly, at times, middle-class sensibilities and marital strife.
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Theatre director Anuradha Kapur - The collaborator

Theatre director Anuradha Kapur - The collaborator

India Today — Few hours before the show, the auditorium at India International Centre is empty. The silence is punctuated by the hum of the airconditioners, and the lights' operator seems to be in a mood to try out different designs on the stage. (Photograph: Sukant Deepak)
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Filmmaker Gitanjali Rao - Bombay Rose for Venice

Filmmaker Gitanjali Rao - Bombay Rose for Venice

India Today — 'Animation needs support in publicity and endorsements. We need what art films were given by the NFDC in the '60s. Not because these are art films, but as they are in their infancy and need help to grow' - Gitanjali Rao IT was a few winters ago that we met in a small hill town in Himachal Pradesh.
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Filmmaker Deepa Mehta - Apocalypse now

Filmmaker Deepa Mehta - Apocalypse now

India Today — The dictionary meaning of dystopia': An imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic. She says there is something about such stories that never fail to intrigue herbe it 1984 or Handmaid's Tale.
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Actor Shabana Azmi - One hundred years of stillness

Actor Shabana Azmi - One hundred years of stillness

India Today — All India President of IPTA and member of the Progressive Writers Association, Kaifi, penned some of the most delicate and heartbreaking romantic couplets and revolutionary verse. Late into dusk, she would wake up to the applause. That meant abba must be on the mike.
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Artist Riyas Komu- A landmark to the fourth world

Artist Riyas Komu- A landmark to the fourth world

India Today — The artist says that the act of imagining Ambedkar in South Africa opens up several trajectories of thought, conversations and possibilities of convergence. It is the place where some of the earliest human fossils have been found. It is called the Cradle of Humankind.
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Archivist Rahaab Allana - The memory keeper

Archivist Rahaab Allana - The memory keeper

India Today — The office has clean, neat lines. Nothing is out of place. Sometimes, the lack of anarchy, even physical, can be such a welcome break. He comes straight to the point. But there is no sense of urgency.
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Artist Sudarshan Shetty - Possibilities, questions & vacuum

Artist Sudarshan Shetty - Possibilities, questions & vacuum

India Today — It was one of those nights, hanging on the fringes of the dawn when you saw a red bus that had silver wings. There was a glint. One was almost forced to keep staring, stand close; quietly. No, not because of the scale. But perhaps in the hope of a long, healing embrace.
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Filmmaker Gurvinder Singh - Carrying the valleys within

Filmmaker Gurvinder Singh - Carrying the valleys within

India Today — He, sitting below a lone tungsten bulb in the falling shades of the evening, and looking at the road. Quietly. It was Himalayan winters and the setting was his Beckettian cafe in the mountains of Bir. That is the image carried from our last meeting a few months back.
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Artists Thukral & Tagra - Farmer woes are just the tip of the iceberg at this art exhibit

Artists Thukral & Tagra - Farmer woes are just the tip of the iceberg at this art exhibit

India Today — The magic is in the white spaces. The unsaid speaks the loudest. There are numbers and there are mathematical signs. Even the most scientific equations are suddenly alien scribbling as the artists sketch a world straight out of vague contemporary times.
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Playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar - Pressing Pause and Play | Theatre

Playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar - Pressing Pause and Play | Theatre

India Today — Though he loves the English language, Mahesh Elkunchwar prefers to write plays in Marathi. Honoured with a prize for his life's achievements at the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) last month, playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar was forced to take centrestage. One can imagine Elkunchwar being uncomfortable with the attention.
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Artist Ranbir Kaleka - The Art of Time | Books

Artist Ranbir Kaleka - The Art of Time | Books

India Today — Recently conferred with the Punjab Gaurav Samman by the Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi in Chandigarh, Ranbir Kaleka's paintings, with themes of sexuality and tradition, are surrealistic. Delhi-based artist Ranbir Kaleka insists that the title of his latest exhibition, Waking to the Face of the New Dawn, comprising five works in all and covering all three floors of the Vadehra Art Gallery in Delhi, speaks for itself.
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Filmmaker Aijaz Khan - Dial 786 for God

Filmmaker Aijaz Khan - Dial 786 for God

India Today — Filmmaker Aijaz Khan doesn't like to take sides. When a director does that, he's assuming his audience is stupid, and that can be disastrous, says Khan, whose new film Hamid looks at the Kashmir conflict through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy.
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Artist Inder Salim - Body as medium of expression

Artist Inder Salim - Body as medium of expression

India Today — Late into the night, amidst the embers of the dying bonfire in the abandoned grounds in Morni Hills, he constantly talks about the full moon and what its surrealistic light can do. Asymmetrical shadows move around us. He notices them and smiles.
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Filmmaker Ivan Ayr - Thank you, bicycle thief

Filmmaker Ivan Ayr - Thank you, bicycle thief

India Today — It was a bicycle thief, not The Bicycle Thief, that inspired Indian-American filmmaker Ivan Ayr to write his first short-the story of a man who finds the thief who stole his bicycle but decides to steal it back from him instead of going to the police.
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Filmmaker Q - Muck raker

Filmmaker Q - Muck raker

India Today — An international film festival regular, Q's latest film, Garbage, is a response to our politically nauseating times. His new work was conceived amidst tragedy. Two deaths framed the story-that of his mother's and his friend, perfume specialist Monica Ghurde. But his grief wasn't his only inspiration.
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Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap - Angry no more

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap - Angry no more

India Today — Once known as Bollywood's most volatile director, Anurag Kashyap is playing it cool. He swims 80 minutes a day, every day, to get his mind right. He has quit smoking. "The urge after food is killing, though," he said.
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Actress Rasika Duggal - Lead 2, act 1

Actress Rasika Duggal - Lead 2, act 1

India Today — Actor Rasika Dugal, who plays the writer's wife Safia in Nandita Das's film Manto that was screened at Cannes a few days ago, says the pressure she faced was nothing compared to Nawazuddin Siddiqui. "After all, he portrays a writer who has not lost his popularity," she smiles.
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Author Janice Pariat gets candid about her latest book

Author Janice Pariat gets candid about her latest book

India Today — Award-winning author Janice Pariat's latest novel 'The Nine Chambered Heart' may not have geographical anchorage or characters that carry an identity of a name, but she insists that looking at the world through love can be a well-defined plot for life.
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Revolutionary singer Bant Singh - Ballad of the singing torso

Revolutionary singer Bant Singh - Ballad of the singing torso

India Today — When the story is about a man who lost his arms and legs because he went to court to complain against the gangrape of his 16-year-old daughter, you really don't know how to start a conversation. Will he like you enough to really open up?
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