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    Nawaid Anjum
    About the AuthorNawaid Anjum
    Nawaid Anjum is the Features Editor at The Federal
    Valentines Day: How Hindi cinema gave us a wrong blueprint of love for decades
    The Eighth Column

    Valentine's Day: How Hindi cinema gave us a wrong blueprint of love for decades

    14 Feb 2025 1:00 AM
    Preeti Shenoy
    Features

    Preeti Shenoy interview: ‘Love isn’t always socially acceptable, it exists in the grey’

    13 Feb 2025 12:40 PM
    Valentines Day-Promise Day
    Features

    Valentine’s Day 2025, Promise Day: An Indian guide to keeping your word in love

    11 Feb 2025 12:43 PM
    Githa Hariharan
    Features

    Githa Hariharan interview: ‘Lived diversity under threat, exclusion process has begun’

    11 Feb 2025 7:12 AM
    Chandrika Tandon on Grammy
    Features

    Chandrika Tandon interview: ‘Music is spiritual; Grammy cherry on the cake’

    7 Feb 2025 5:15 PM
    Chandrika Tandon
    Features

    Chandrika Tandon interview: ‘Music has a way of getting into your soul’

    7 Feb 2025 2:10 PM
    Alternative music, global healing: Indian-origin musicians strike a chord at the Grammys
    The Eighth Column

    Alternative music, global healing: Indian-origin musicians strike a chord at the Grammys

    6 Feb 2025 10:30 PM
    OreGin-Manpreet Singh
    Features

    Craft gin revolution: How Indian makers make the most of local botanicals

    5 Feb 2025 11:10 AM
    Chandrika Tandon
    Entertainment

    How Chandrika Tandon’s spiritual odyssey led to her first Grammy at 71

    4 Feb 2025 4:06 AM
    Bhargav Saikia-Bokshi
    Films

    Bhargav Saikia interview: ‘Ecology, feminism run parallel to each other in Bokshi’

    3 Feb 2025 12:45 PM
    Mona Lisa
    Features

    Mona Lisa: How Leonardo da Vinci’s painting became art world’s most abiding obsession

    31 Jan 2025 1:00 AM
    Susmit Sen
    Features

    Susmit Sen interview: ‘I felt creatively suffocated with Indian Ocean’

    28 Jan 2025 2:45 AM
    Book review T V Paul
    Features

    T. V. Paul interview: ‘Trump is likely to bring more challenges for India’

    27 Jan 2025 11:30 AM
    The Seed of the the Sacred Fig
    Film Reviews

    The Seed of the Sacred Fig: A harrowing political drama on women’s protests in Iran

    27 Jan 2025 4:05 AM
    Rama Bhima Soma-Karnataka-Srikar Raghavan
    Features

    Srikar Raghavan interview: ‘Impossible to destroy Karnataka’s richly inclusive legacy’

    25 Jan 2025 9:15 AM
    Mughal-e-Azam-Feroz Abbas Khan’
    Entertainment

    ‘Mughal-e-Azam: The Musical’: What makes Feroz Abbas Khan’s play a thing of wonder

    23 Jan 2025 11:15 AM
    Saif Ali Khan
    Entertainment

    Saif Ali Khan: The curious case of Hindi cinema’s gentleman rogue

    21 Jan 2025 10:46 AM
    Coldplay
    Entertainment

    Coldplay playlist: 10 most popular songs by band you can play on loop

    19 Jan 2025 5:01 AM
    Art for earth: How contemporary Indian artists draw on ecological crisis
    The Eighth Column

    Art for earth: How contemporary Indian artists draw on ecological crisis

    17 Jan 2025 2:16 AM
    Los Angeles wildfire
    Features

    Los Angeles wildfires: Flames can devour homes, but love and memories remain

    17 Jan 2025 1:00 AM
    Kumarakom-Kerala
    Features

    10 travel destinations in India perfect for Tier 2, Tier 3 city explorers

    16 Jan 2025 3:45 AM
    Expanding Horizon-GR Iranna’s Silent Portrait
    Features

    ‘Expanding Horizons’: New show in Delhi envisions art as a blueprint for tomorrow

    14 Jan 2025 5:05 AM
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    Entertainment

    Atul Kumar on directing The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

    12 Jan 2025 8:00 AM
    Pritish Nandy
    Features

    Pritish Nandy obit: The ‘nowhere’ man who donned many hats with singular grace

    9 Jan 2025 7:15 AM
    Emilia Pérez
    Films

    Emilia Pérez: France's official Oscar entry is an ode to the agony of gender dysphoria

    8 Jan 2025 1:00 AM
    Notable books of 2025
    Features

    Notable books of 2025 you can look forward to reading, and adding to your TBR list

    2 Jan 2025 8:44 AM
    Shyam Benegal obit: Cartographer of Indian psyche whose frames mapped our stories
    Films

    Shyam Benegal obit: Cartographer of Indian psyche whose frames mapped our stories

    24 Dec 2024 5:25 AM
    Upamanyu Chatterjee
    Features

    Books yearender 2024: Return of Upamanyu Chatterjee, the sharp-eyed chronicler of Indian ennui

    21 Dec 2024 1:00 AM
    Zakir Hussain
    Features

    Zakir Hussain obit: The maestro who made the tabla sing and do all the talking

    16 Dec 2024 8:12 AM
    Awara-Raj Kapoor
    Films

    10 films by Raj Kapoor, the ’greatest showman’ who dreamed in cinemascope

    14 Dec 2024 10:10 AM
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