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During the election campaign, Vijay and his Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) released a detailed manifesto with wide-ranging promises focused on welfare, governance, and social issues
Even after securing a historic mandate in Kerala, the Congress finds itself caught in a familiar power struggle, with competing camps backing V.D. Satheesan, K.C. Venugopal and Ramesh Chennithala for the Chief Minister’s post
Amid rising West Asia tensions and fears of an oil shock, PM Narendra Modi urged citizens to cut fuel consumption, avoid non-essential travel and postpone gold purchases to reduce pressure on India’s economy.
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It sounds unreal that in the 18th century Murshidabad accounted for five per cent of world trade. Today, it is one of West Bengal’s poorest districts. That’s the story of the state missing in these elections
While disputes around the legitimacy of 27 lakh voters remain unsolved, filmy heroism, comic relief, barbs and jibes added colour to the tainted West Bengal elections
From Bill burning, to a star debuting in the political arena and the tussle with the Centre, the precursor to the Tamil Nadu elections was full of drama. Will the climax be as dramatic?
While critics say the prime minister’s recent televised address to the nation violated the poll code, is there a need to address the deeper structural gaps in the airspace framework?
Women voters may not have stood in front rows in election rallies, but they were at the centre this election. Their centrality to Tamil Nadu’s political story did not begin today
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Mufti is former Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir and President of the People's Democratic Party
Shailaja is a former MLA from Mattanur, Kerala. She is contesting from Peravur constituency in this election
From a forceful stand on delimitation in Parliament to a calibrated global voice, the DMK leader’s rise reflects both conviction and constraints within party hierarchy.
From RWAs to jhuggi clusters in Kalkaji, residents weigh in on Atishi, crediting targeted welfare but raising concerns over accessibility, priorities, and uneven development.
Despite claims of increased participation in 2024 Jharkhand Assembly elections, women remain underrepresented, though leaders like Deepika Pandey Singh highlight what sustained grassroots politics can achieve.
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Supriya Sule is a Member of Parliament representing Baramati, Maharashtra
Saayoni Ghosh is an MP from Jadavpur, West Bengal
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Kangana Ranaut is an MP from Mandi, Himachal Pradesh
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Union Cabinet Minister for Women and Child Development Annapurna Devi is an MP from Koderma.
Nearly three years since ethnic violence first tore through Manipur, the casualties and the cumulative toll of conflict keep accumulating. Even as the current political climate in India continues to be defined by the reverberations in mainstream poll-bound states, in Manipur, peace appears to have adopted the form of a managed illusion: one that is brittle, fragile and heavily policed
There are pauses and sudden advances. Just as talks appear within reach, they slip away. No one really knows where all this is leading to—war or peace?
Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge hold key meeting in Delhi as factions back K C Venugopal and V D Satheesan for top post
US President says Tehran’s response to peace proposal was inappropriate as tensions over the Strait of Hormuz and uranium enrichment continue
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‘The Last Tenant’ (2000), co-starring Vidya Balan, arrives 26 years later on YouTube as a tribute to the legendary Irrfan Khan on his sixth death anniversary.
Nicholas Braun and Nicholas Galitzine compete as scene-stealers in a joyous, brisk whodunnit that's pure pleasure to sink into
‘Dug Dug’ (2021) attempts to dissect the phenomenon of how faith is personally and by extension, collectively endured over time. While this description alone sounds quite heavy and bleak, the film ensures to tickle your funny bone throughout its almost two-hour runtime.
The Last Tenant | Irrfan Khan Meditates On Music And Longing In This Effervescent Supernatural Drama
‘The Last Tenant’ (2000), co-starring Vidya Balan, arrives 26 years later on YouTube as a tribute to the legendary Irrfan Khan on his sixth death anniversary.
Nicholas Braun and Nicholas Galitzine compete as scene-stealers in a joyous, brisk whodunnit that's pure pleasure to sink into
‘Dug Dug’ (2021) attempts to dissect the phenomenon of how faith is personally and by extension, collectively endured over time. While this description alone sounds quite heavy and bleak, the film ensures to tickle your funny bone throughout its almost two-hour runtime.
Aditya Kripalani's chamber drama about acting, loneliness and self-worth works best when it stops trying too hard.
It is mostly the colourful cast of characters that gives Amazon Prime Video’s Lukkhe its most memorable moments. When the show is imagined not as a Fast and Furious film set in the Punjabi rap scene with a neon obsession, but as one which examines the specific toll of masculinity front and centre, it delivers.
By stripping away the golden filter of the mustard fields, contemporary cinema and television is finally allowing us to see Punjab not as a nostalgic postcard, but as a living, breathing and deeply pained reality that continues to heal from its scars, both old and new.
Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien always understood memory as unstable and compromised, not a sacred vault waiting to be opened but a form of afterlife that distorts even as it preserves. Memory is never whole and identity is far more contingent than we like to imagine.
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Tagore was a disruptor. On his 165th birth anniversary, as his sonar bangla awaits its final moments of consummate saffronisation, it is absolutely imperative that we remember Tagore for all he was—a man deeply troubled by the narrowness of nationalism as well as the parochial boundaries of caste, creed and country.
With Renoir headed soon to U.S. theatres, the rising Japanese filmmaker discusses her Palme d’Or-nominated second feature that elliptically approaches a child’s vision of death.
The official selections from India are scarce at this year's edition, barring an FTII student film and a 1986 Malayalam classic
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani chose to forgo the Met Gala and instead released a fashion portfolio via i-D, photographed by Kara McCurdy. The series highlights six local fashion industry professionals whose work intersects craft and labour advocacy.
From subtle social media signals to outright criticism, several public figures weighed in on the controversy surrounding this year’s Met Gala.
The 1986 film remains one of the most trenchant pieces of political cinema to have come out of India. Abraham passed shortly after its release. The film has been restored by Film Heritage Foundation in collaboration with Odessa Collective.
Streaming on Masoom Rajwani's YouTube channel, Natu’s razor-sharp short film scans a queer right-winger coming undone.
Met Gala 2026: Fashion’s biggest night saw several celebrities arriving on the red carpet for the themed Costume Art, with the dress code “Fashion is Art.”
The 2026 edition brought in a raft of attention-grabbing looks from rookies to veterans
Prosthetics, tailoring and ageing references shape Bad Bunny’s Met Gala 2026 appearance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
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