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Mamata Banerjee’s West Bengal is a cultural wasteland marked by pastiche, nostalgia, blind faith and two broken languages
Film
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Essay
Iran’s Oscar-winning film is not a ‘dirty picture’ of any one society
Film
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Essay
The shifting sounds of the Dalit movement in Maharashtra
Salil Tripathi
Communities
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Books
An evocation of the subcontinent’s past that avoids both elegy and melodrama
Faiza S Khan
Literature
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Books
A memoir of a remarkable life that disappointingly reveals less than it promises.
Manjula Padmanabhan
Literature
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Books
Mehrotra’s book, with its fascination for upper-class pleasure-seekers, fails to be a convincing portrait of the urban young
Annie Zaidi
Arts
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Books
The wondrous world of photographic fiction
Himanshu Bhagat
Arts
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Essay
Two new journals provide a plethora of ways to combine words and images
Trisha Gupta
Film
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Essay
On an underground video parlour and the life filmic
Jai Arjun Singh
Arts
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Books
A book that delights in how jazz—both as music and worldview—once infiltrated the emerging, cosmopolitan metropolis of Bombay
Sanjay Iyer
Literature
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Essay
How vice pays tribute to virtue in contemporary India
Mihir S Sharma
Film
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Essay
Open frame’s 11th edition reinforces PSBT’s identity as an invigorating platform for debate.
Snigdha Poonam
Arts
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Essay
An attempt to show the same old natural world in new ways works in parts
Himanshu Bhagat
Film
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Essay
3 idiots proves that a simple story, well told with an underlying social message, will always find an audience
Naman Ramachandran
Film
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Essay
Nine could have been a great deal more, but it’s still highly enjoyable in parts and intriguing throughout
Jennie Kermode
