‘Raman Raghav 2.0’ Is Dark, But Also A Dud: Twitter Reviews The New Killer Film
By YKA Staff: “Raman Raghav 2.0”, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Vicky Kaushal released on June 24. Directed by Anurag Kashyap who is still riding high on the success of Udta Punjab (which he...
View ArticleThis Sufi Band’s Tribute To The Courageous Women Of Kashmir Will Touch Your Soul
By 101India: The Jhelum is the source of life and livelihood for the local residents of Kashmir. Inspired by the devastating floods in Kashmir, the song ‘Jhelumas’ talks about the tremendous...
View ArticleAn Open Letter To The Makers Of A Highly Sexist New YouTube Series –‘Life...
By Shivangi Singh: Dear Makers of ‘Life Sahi Hai’, I am writing this letter to describe what I went through while watching the two episodes of your latest, so-called “new age” YouTube series based on...
View ArticleA Firsthand Account Of The “Frenzy And Chaos” That Was Harper Collins’...
By Mayuri Ghosh: Very few events *read – SALE* would serve as an incentive for me to wake up at 6 AM and head out to a place quite far from my house – Faridabad. One of them was the recently held...
View Articleक्यों मुझे लगता है हिंदी भाषा अपनी पहचान खोती जा रही है?
गोल्डी तिवारी: मैं, मूल रूप से भारत के हिंदी भाषी प्रांत में जन्मी व पली-बढ़ी। हालांकि स्कूल-कालेज में मेरी अधिकतर शिक्षा-दीक्षा अंग्रेजी माध्यम में हुई परंतु बचपन से ही मैनें खुद के भीतर हिंदी भाषा के...
View ArticleFrom The Bylanes Of Turkman Gate: 10 Captivating Portraits Of Old Delhi’s...
By Serge Bouvet: Turkman Gate is located in the old city around which New Delhi has emerged. It would be wrong to brand the area around Turkman Gate as a ghetto, as it houses various wholesale markets...
View ArticleReview: The Adrenalin-Pumping Gore In ‘Raman Raghav 2.0’ Is Classic Kashyap
By Shambhav Pande: ‘Raman Raghav 2.0’ The film is not a biopic of psychopath Raman Raghav, who infested the streets of Mumbai in the mid-1960s, rather, it tries to capture the psyche of the serial...
View ArticleThe Indian Censor Board Needs A Drastic Makeover, And Here Is One Way To Do It
By Gulraj Bedi: I guess, all of us have seen the war of words that became the front-page headline of every National daily in India. It was about the rift between the Central Board of Film Certification...
View Article‘Meet The Patels’ On Their Hilarious Journey Of Finding Love In The US
By Anjana Radhakrishnan: Ravi Patel is sitting across from a pretty, young Indian-American woman. He smiles nervously at her, his hair, still a little wet from the water he used, to slick it back into...
View ArticleEven After Her Demise, This Legendary Artist Challenges Dance And Dancers...
By Anoushka Agrawal: Relevance. A word that most people find so hard to incorporate into all spheres of life, especially art. How does a painter paint something that is relevant? How does a singer...
View ArticleWatch: The Exciting Journey Of The Hip-Hop Dance Crew That Inspired ‘ABCD 2’
By YKA Staff: If you haven’t already, it is high time that you meet the inspiration behind the Bollywood movie ‘ABCD2’. ‘Kings United‘ is the first dance crew to win a bronze medal for India at the...
View ArticleDelhi’s First ‘Ad-Hoc’
By Kanav Gupta: As early as 1812, a 16-year-old man moves from Agra – permanently – to Delhi, and takes up a rented accommodation in Gali Qasim Jan in what is now called Old Delhi. This man is an...
View ArticleIn Memory Of A Theatre Legend Who Died Creating Art That Spoke To The Masses
By Karthik Venkatesh: I was a day away from turning 14 when Safdar Hashmi passed away on January 2, 1989. When his news made the front pages (albeit at the bottom of the page), I wasn’t sure if it was...
View ArticleMeeting Her Late: A Guilty Tribute To Veena Sahasrabuddhe
By Kanav Gupta: Growing up in Bathinda, Punjab, a place virtually bereft of any collective culture of classical music, my access to Hindustani music was always limited by whatever was available in the...
View Article‘Masaan’ Actor Richa Chadha On Playing The ‘Strong Woman’, Fighting...
By Rohini Banerjee for Youth Ki Awaaz: You might know her as the spunky, motor-mouth Nagma in ‘Gangs Of Wasseypur’, or the conflicted, subdued Devi in ‘Masaan‘ — Richa Chadha has quickly emerged as a...
View Articleख़ालसा कॉलेज में स्मृति ईरानी से मिलने गये शिक्षकों को मुलाकात के बदले मिली...
अभिमन्यु: दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय शिक्षक संघ के आकस्मिक आह्वान पे सैकड़ों क तादाद में शिक्षक ख़ालसा कॉलेज, नार्थ कैंपस के बाहर जमा हुए। वजह थी हमारे मानव संसाधन विकास मंत्री स्मृति ईरानी जी के ख़ालसा कॉलेज...
View Articleक्यूँ बिस्मिल जैसे क्रांतिकारी को सम्मान के नाम पर मिला एक टूटा-फूटा पुस्तकालय
प्रशांत झा: शहीद बिस्मिल की याद में बना खस्ताहाल पुस्तकालय “ओ रे बिस्मिल काश आते आज तुम हिन्दोस्तां, देखते की मुल्क सारा ये टशन ये थ्रिल में है।” गुलाल फ़िल्म का ये गाना भले ही डार्क ह्यूमर का हिस्सा हो...
View Articleलड़ाई, खून-खराबा या राजनीति, क्या वजह है कि सब लोग गेम ऑफ़ थ्रोंस देखना चाहते हैं?
हिमांशु सिंह: करीब 10 साल पहले की बात रही होगी, मैं ट्यूशन से घर लौटा था। दरवाजा खोला तो सोफे पर बैठे हुए या कहिये आधे लेटे हुए, बड़े भैया टी.वी. देख रहे थे। टी.वी. पर कुछ अंग्रेजी में आ रहा था, जिसमें...
View ArticleWhat’s Lost When We Photograph Life Instead Of Experiencing It?
By Rebecca Macmillan At a conference on June 14, Facebook executive Nicola Mendelsohn predicted that the social networking site would be “all video” within five years. “We’re seeing a year-on-year...
View Article“ठीक तुम्हारे पीछे”: कैसे मानव कौल की ये कहानियां बाज़ार और राजनीति को जोड़ती हैं
अविनाश कुमार चंचल: किसी रात अकेले में हम चाय बनाकर पीते हैं। उस रात हमें नींद नहीं आ रही होती। हम तय नहीं कर पा रहे होते हैं कि चाय अच्छी है, या नींद का ना आना बुरा। मानव कौल की कहानियों को पढ़ते हुए...
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