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"My film is an attempt to humanise journalists": 'While We Watched' director Vinay Shukla
'An Insignificant Man' co-director Vinay Shukla is ready with his new documentary film on the state of Indian news media.
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'Goncourt Choice of India prize is the start of a new adventure': Philippe Claudel, secretary general, Goncourt Academy
Previously won by Simone de Beauvoir, Marcel Proust and André Malraux, the Goncourt Prize is known for making the winning book a commercial success. The French literature prize has now been instituted in India, too.
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'Summer of Soul': The documentary that beat 'Writing With Fire' to win an Oscar
The story of 'Kabar Lahariya' Dalit women reporters lost a historic Oscar to the retelling of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival that celebrates Black music as American history.
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Infinite knowledge: Virtual reality is reimagining libraries in the 21st century
VR headsets, QR codes and holograms are entering future libraries to link visitors with different forms of life and cultures.
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Jaipur Literature Festival 2022 | Correcting history and helping the world
Women writers at the 15th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival make sense of the world by changing beliefs and a centuries-old male-centric written narrative of the society.
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City of murals: Public art reflects these tsunami survivors' resilience
The Kannagi Nagar resettlement for the 2004 tsunami survivors on the outskirts of Chennai is a thriving arts district today.
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Writers and war: Focus on the state of the world at 15th Jaipur Literature Festival
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Damon Galgut and Ameena Hussein at Jaipur Literature Festival, returning as hybrid edition from March 5 to 14.
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Rise of the Indian documentary: Journey to the Oscar-nominated 'Writing With Fire'
Writing With Fire's Oscar nomination follows a strong documentary filmmaking movement in the last decade.
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Indian drone case, and other strange examples of art vandalism
From the Germanic tribe Vandals who pilfered Rome in the fifth century to the Chinese teenager who carved his name on a 3,500-year-old Egyptian relic, vandalism has been an odd, undesired accompaniment to art for ages.
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Satyajit Ray films: Restored and roaming the world
A non-Bengali Kolkata family that produced six of Satyajit Ray's films has restored them for cinema lovers around the world.
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After Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, Kapil's Devils aid Saudi Arabia's cultural ambitions
Kabir Khan's 1983 World Cup drama '83 will close the first international film festival in the gulf country coming out of a three-decade-long cinema ban.
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At IFFI Goa, '32 White' trains the spotlight on high suicide rate among dentistry students in India
A new documentary shot over a decade in one of the country's top dental colleges reveals a toxic campus culture and low self-esteem affecting the mental health of dental students.
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Ageless International Film Festival focuses on movies about and by older adults
The online edition of Ageless International Film Festival is backed by the South Asian community in Canada. The film festival wants society to care for and learn from the world's older adults.
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Tokyo film festival: After Olympic gold, it's silver screen specials from India in the Japanese capital
The first major international event after the 2020 Olympics, the 34th Tokyo International Film Festival has two Indian entries in the official selection.
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Dancing for the planet: Tribal community members from Bastar to Uzbekistan say culture and climate change are linked
Indian and international performers at the second edition of Chhattisgarh's National Tribal Dance Festival express respect for nature on the eve of the United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow.
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Review | 'Barça: The Inside Story of the World's Greatest Football Club' is a captivating book; a minefield of anecdotes
'Soccernomics' author Simon Kuper's latest book reveals the rich history of, and life at, the Barcelona Football Club.
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Air India Art Collection: Antiquities, not art, hold the key to monetary value of 'national treasure'
Experts say the massive collection worth "hundreds of crores" must remain as a separate collection in a museum dedicated to the former national carrier.
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Satyajit Ray's calamitous characters Goopy and Bagha turn inspiring icons
A production house in Bangladesh named after the two dreadful musicians of 'Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne' is blazing a trail of international productions in the subcontinent.
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Indian tea industry: A new management flavour, thanks to small growers
Owned and operated by farmers, the Grassroots Tea Corporation could transform the lives of over 2.5 lakh small tea growers in India.
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Review | ‘The Rescue’ by Jimmy Chin and E. Vasarhelyi recreates the heroic rescue of 12 children from a flooded cave
'The Rescue' premiered at the just-concluded Toronto International Film Festival. It reveals the intense drama behind the headline-making operation for the first time.
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Toronto Film Festival: Wayanad's 'River of Blood', Jodhpur's 'Bullet Baba' temple, now frames of world cinema
The 46th Toronto International Film Festival from September 9-18, with in-person and digital screenings, addresses the anxieties of a pandemic-hit world.
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Venice Film Festival: Indian Cinema's happy hunting ground
Aditya Vikram Sengupta's 'Once Upon a Time in Calcutta' in the Venice official selection follows a two decade-old success story at the world's oldest film festival beginning on September 1.
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Nipah virus and Covid-19: How an artist in Kerala braved both health emergencies
Locked down at home during the Nipah virus outbreak and coronavirus pandemic, artist Smitha G.S. turned her attention to lesser creatures no one notices.
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Set during the 1962 India-China war, 'Shankar's Fairies' is the only Indian entry at the 74th Locarno Film Festival
'Shankar's Fairies', a Varanasi family's film project, explores the challenges of social hierarchies.
