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Nawaid Anjum
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Nawaid Anjum is the Features Editor at The Federal
IIFA
Entertainment

IIFA Awards returns to Abu Dhabi with spotlight on South Indian cinema; SRK among hosts

20 Sept 2024 9:20 AM IST
Elias Khoury
Features

Elias Khoury (1948-2024): Chronicler of fragmented souls, keeper of forgotten histories

17 Sept 2024 12:37 PM IST
Booker Prize 2024
Features

Booker Prize 2024: Six novels on shortlist delve into ‘fault lines of our times’, five by women

17 Sept 2024 7:40 AM IST
Stree 2
Films

How Stree 2’s box-office success rebuts the machismo of Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal

14 Sept 2024 3:00 PM IST
France shortlists Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light for Oscars; A moment of shame for India
Films

France shortlists Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light for Oscars; A moment of shame for India

13 Sept 2024 3:46 PM IST
Home is where the heart breaks: The tragic cost of ‘bulldozer justice’
The Eighth Column

Home is where the heart breaks: The tragic cost of ‘bulldozer justice’

13 Sept 2024 6:54 AM IST
Kennedy and Nixon
Features

US Presidential debates: Revisiting the most electrifying moments through the decades

11 Sept 2024 6:30 AM IST
‘It’s not easy being an investigative journalist in the UAE’
Videos

‘It’s not easy being an investigative journalist in the UAE’

10 Sept 2024 8:10 AM IST
Libgen-Internet Archive
Features

Why the fate of LibGen, Internet Archive matters, and what it says about open knowledge

10 Sept 2024 6:30 AM IST
Pyaasa
Films

Why Guru Dutt remains Hindi cinema’s most enduring filmmaker 60 years after his death

9 Sept 2024 10:00 AM IST
Rear Window
Films

How Hitchcock’s Rear Window, about ethics of voyeurism, remains a winner 70 years on

7 Sept 2024 6:30 AM IST
How K-pop act BTS found global fandom with ‘Dynamite,’ their first English-language single
Features

How K-pop act BTS found global fandom with ‘Dynamite,’ their first English-language single

2 Sept 2024 6:05 PM IST
Bloodlines of freedom: How Bangladeshi women fiction writers write about the 1971 war
The Eighth Column

Bloodlines of freedom: How Bangladeshi women fiction writers write about the 1971 war

2 Sept 2024 6:30 AM IST
Sholay
Films

Sholay at 49: How Ramesh Sippy’s film embedded itself into the national psyche

1 Sept 2024 8:25 AM IST
‘Modi 3.0 is running with same commitment to Hindutva’
Videos

‘Modi 3.0 is running with same commitment to Hindutva’

1 Sept 2024 8:00 AM IST
Taylor Swift: Eras Tour
Features

Taylor Swift backs Donald Trump for President, in his AI-generated fantasyland

27 Aug 2024 6:30 AM IST
Ruchi Ghanashyam: ‘Pakistan is an extremely opaque place for Indian diplomats’
Interviews

Ruchi Ghanashyam: ‘Pakistan is an extremely opaque place for Indian diplomats’

26 Aug 2024 8:10 AM IST
Gulzar
Features

Gulzar at 90: Why Indian cinema’s ultimate multi-hyphenate will remain unmatched as a lyricist

23 Aug 2024 11:00 AM IST
Afghan Girl
Features

How still photography is trying to keep its cool against the onslaught of videos

20 Aug 2024 8:22 AM IST
Dhrubajyoti Borah: ‘Migrants in Assam need to be integrated into the society’ | Culture Vibes
Interviews

Dhrubajyoti Borah: ‘Migrants in Assam need to be integrated into the society’ | Culture Vibes

18 Aug 2024 5:10 PM IST
Independence Day
Features

I was born a Muslim on August 15. Here’s what I feel in Modi’s India on Independence Day

15 Aug 2024 12:30 PM IST
Partition Novels
Features

16 essential books of fiction on Partition: Stories of loss, barbarity, survival, and hope

15 Aug 2024 6:30 AM IST
Zia Haider Rahman
Features

Why Zia Haider Rahman’s In The Light of What We Know is the best English novel from Bangladesh

14 Aug 2024 7:25 AM IST
How fiction writers capture the infinite possibilities of multiverse
The Eighth Column

How fiction writers capture the infinite possibilities of multiverse

13 Aug 2024 6:30 AM IST
Timeri N. Murari interview: Indian literary establishment is like a closed shop’
Videos

Timeri N. Murari interview: 'Indian literary establishment is like a closed shop’

10 Aug 2024 6:38 PM IST
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Features

First Law of Democratic Gravity: All statues are felled, sooner or later

7 Aug 2024 7:06 PM IST
M.G. Vassanji interview: ‘I had to humanise the story of Abdus Salam’
Programmes

M.G. Vassanji interview: ‘I had to humanise the story of Abdus Salam’

3 Aug 2024 5:10 PM IST
Edna O Brien
Features

Edna O’Brien (1930-2024): Irish literary rebel who put the reader inside a woman’s skin

2 Aug 2024 6:30 AM IST
Prayaag Akbar interview: ‘Right-wing shows need to be understood, not ridiculed’
Videos

Prayaag Akbar interview: ‘Right-wing shows need to be understood, not ridiculed’

27 July 2024 5:01 PM IST
N. Kalyan Raman interview: ‘Devibharathi’s fiction engages with politics and culture’
Features

N. Kalyan Raman interview: ‘Devibharathi’s fiction engages with politics and culture’

25 July 2024 6:30 AM IST
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