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How Mayank Jain’s debut Nietzsche Ki Kutai wraps India’s difficult truths with humour, warmth, and wit
From quirky tea-shop spies to nuanced portraits of everyday women, the unapologetically desi stories in Mayank Jain’s debut collection, set across different timelines, offer a deeply personal, familiar reflection of India that stays with you
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Politics of hostel rooms: What student rooms reveal about class, gender, aspiration and loneliness
Behind the small beds, shared cupboards and late-night silences of student hostels lie larger stories of class, gender, aspiration, loneliness and the unequal freedoms that shape young lives
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How Curry Barker’s Obsession finds its real victim in the girl trapped inside a lonely boy’s wish
Curry Barker’s Obsession is not frightening merely because of its supernatural curse, but because it turns a lonely boy’s wish to be loved into a horror story about consent, control and the woman left to suffer for his desire
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From Fatma Begum to Gen Z filmmakers: How women have changed Hindi cinema in the last 100 years
Since Fatma Begum’s Bulbul-e-Paristan premiered in 1926, each generation of women directors has pushed cinema into new territory, from fantasy and parallel cinema to feminist dramas, OTT experiments and global acclaim
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Epidemic: A short story by Aditya Kushwaha
What if the next epidemic did not spread fear, but empathy? The Epidemic follows three lonely strangers in imagining a world where people can connect.
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Thilothama.com: Speculative fiction by J. Avaran
Thilothama.com, a work of speculative fiction, tells the story of Su, a young engineer whose attachment to a companion chat-bot gradually grows into something neither of them anticipated.
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Brown review: Karisma Kapoor gives this Kolkata noir its aching centre
Abhinay Deo’s thriller works better as a portrait of a wounded woman and a morally decaying city than as a murder mystery, but Karisma Kapoor’s Rita Brown makes it gripping, graceful and worth watching
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Imtiaz Ali’s cinema: Love, loss and the long road to the self
Imtiaz Ali’s films use love, travel and music to push restless people toward difficult truths about themselves. From Jab We Met to Tamasha and now Main Vaapas Aaunga, his cinema keeps returning to one stubborn question: how does one become oneself?
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Sony WH-1000XM6 review: The headphones for people who sometimes need the world on mute
Sony’s latest flagship noise-cancelling headphones are expensive, but they give you the power to make daily chaos optional
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Bharathiraja obituary: The filmmaker who took Tamil cinema back to its soil
The films of Bharathiraja (1941-2026) showcased the village’s hunger, shame, desire, caste, rain, gossip, tenderness, rebellion, and memory. With his passing, Tamil cinema has lost one of the last great witnesses of its earth
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The Ocean In My Heart: Selected Poems by Rashmi Raghunath
These poems trace a journey from the terror of mortality to the difficult, dazzling work of becoming alive again. They move through the fragile body, the shock of surgery, rebellion against old certainties, the seduction of freedom, the hunger for beauty, the ache of desire, and the slow confrontation with death and meaning.
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The Weight of the Pixel and other poems by Aardhra Chandran
These five poems are austere, tactile meditations on inheritance, displacement, memory, labour and the violence of systems that enter the body through paper, weather, kitchens, screens and household objects.
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