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Showing posts with label schools and colleges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label schools and colleges. Show all posts
28 May 2021

A child's view of the world through a train ride

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This is the sixth column in my ongoing series on trains in Indian cinema. (Periodic reminder for new readers of this blog: I write a weekly ...
20 February 2021

Book Review: Archaeology and the Public Purpose

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A special book about a special man. My review for Scroll. This study of archaeologist MN Deshpande’s work highlights the integrity and zeal ...

Book Review: A Bit of Everything

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A fine new novel I reviewed for Scroll, about Kashmir and much else:  In ‘A Bit of Everything’, author Sandeep Raina travels with questions ...
15 February 2021

A Short Film with a Long Story

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My Mumbai Mirror column: Karishma Dev Dube's memorable 'Bittu', about two little girls, their friendship and a fateful day, make...
6 September 2020

Shelf Life: Do Clothes Make the Woman?

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The August edition of my column for The Voice of Fashion, on clothes seen through the prism of literature: A story from Nisha Susan’s The Wo...
27 July 2020

All the perfumes of Arabia

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My Mirror column: Uplifting and devastating by turns, Vinod Kamble’s 2019 debut feature Kastoori (The Musk) is the kind of coming-of-age na...
28 June 2020

Shelf Life: High Heels, Parkar-Polka and Other Dressing Dilemmas

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My Shelf Life column for June 2020: Clothes mark the lines between modest and modish in theatre actor Vandana Mishra’s memoir, translate...
10 June 2020

Isolated incidents

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My Mirror column (3rd May 2020): Placebo takes a personal deep dive into one of India's premier medical colleges and comes up with a ...
16 February 2020

Under the influence

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My Mirror column : The under-watched classic  Bigger Than Life  turns family drama into almost-horror, with prescient warnings against mode...
31 December 2019

A Student of Resistance

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My Mumbai Mirror column : As India's students speak out, it seems worth recalling a film about a student who defied another regim...