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The writer is journalist with India Today.
VARIETY
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Singer Parmish Verma shot: Why gun culture thrives in Punjab
How fair is it to blame songs for rising gun violence, crime against women and drugs?
ART & CULTURE
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'Like in life, one should not look for logic in art' - a tribute to artist Malkit Singh
The Chandigarh-based painter and vice-president of Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi died at the age of 75.
ART & CULTURE
| 3-minute read
How A Suitable Girl is treating Vikram Seth
The writer says many new characters have been born around him and lots has changed since A Suitable Boy.
ART & CULTURE
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If I don’t speak out, I will lose my voice: Simran filmmaker Hansal Mehta
The director tells Sukant Deepak that we are living under an establishment that looks at cinema as only a tool for nationalist propaganda.
ART & CULTURE
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This Punjabi music monarch is now Hollywood's 'Black Prince'
Singer Satinder Sartaaj talks about the challenges he faced playing the lead character in a film based on maharaja Duleep Singh’s life.
ART & CULTURE
| 5-minute read
India’s best-known potters, Mansimran and Mary Singh, wonder about the future of their art
Under an overcast sky, they talk of Andretta, the artists’ village nestled in picturesque Himachal Pradesh.
ART & CULTURE
| 4-minute read
'How can men be devoid of sympathy for the women who are victims of their violent acts?'
Filmmaker Deepa Mehta talks to Sukant Deepak about her latest project, Anatomy of Violence, which reimagines the lives of Jyoti Singh’s rapists.
ART & CULTURE
| 6-minute read
Pakistani poet-writer Ali Akbar Natiq: Mullahs have no place in religion
Our neighbour's literary superstar does not like it when critics call him the modern-day Manto.
ART & CULTURE
| 3-minute read
How India's first woman dastango found her voice in a male-dominated art form
Fouzia believes we need to stop giving native languages the second-grade citizen treatment.
ART & CULTURE
| 4-minute read