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These Women In The Forests Of West Bengal Are The Coolest Entrepreneurs...
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Indian Cinema Is Very Powerful, But It Still Has A Lot To Learn From These 3...
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Mother-Daughter Relationships In ‘3 Billboards Outside Ebbing,...
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View ArticleThe Empty Canvas: A Hard-Hitting Commentary On The Obsession With Breasts
“Shunyo E Buke” (Empty Canvas) is a Bengali film released in 2005. It was directed by Kaushik Ganguly. The concept of the film, as the name suggests, is none other than a man’s fantasy – women’s...
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Is Technology Dictating The Rules Of Your Dating Life?
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The famous musicologist Susan McClary once noted that music should not be treated as a “sublimely meaningless activity” that has managed to escape social significance but must be treated as a medium...
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Swara Bhasker’s open letter criticising Bhansali about the way the film “Padmaavat” was made pretty much sums up what’s wrong with the movie. As expected, the trolls did not spare her. Click on any...
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Was it destined to happen? Were they thought of such union in their lives? Were they stoics, their matrimonial bliss would not have been possible? Albeit, a 37-year-old lady Lina Dahlbeck has found...
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