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The social media accounts linked to from News9live are: • Facebook • Instagram • YouTube • Email • X Besides social media accounts, News9live has populated their site with: • What Brahmastra Part One: Shiva does for the cause of the Bollywood superhero movie • Maja Ma movie review: Madhuri Dixit, Gajraj Rao shine in shoddy family drama with misguided queer messaging • Blonde movie review: Assassination of Marilyn Monroe's memory • Paving way for hope: In Darjeeling, a bulldozer connects remote villages to civilisation, saves lives • Jogi movie review: Diljit Dosanjh shines in effective Netflix drama that slowly loses its own efficiency • Everything Everywhere All At Once movie review: Peerless ode to love, life and everything in between • Ghoramara's final gasp: How the Sundarbans island awaits annihilation amid State's apathy, locals' hopelessness • Brahmastra Part One – Shiva movie review: Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor fantasy epic is confused, chaotic, juvenile • The Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives Season 2 review: Reality TV with a wink • 'The Bear' and the elasticity of grief — to keep forgetting until it becomes easier to remember • Dead Pets Unleashed and what it means to make a feminist game: A closer look • Cuttputlli movie review: Akshay Kumar thriller makes mockery of women safety • Natchathiram Nagargiradhu movie review: Pa Ranjith's uneven vignettes of politics of love • The Rings of Power showrunner JD Payne opens up on making The Lord of the Rings accessible to Tolkien beginners • Enchanter of letters: Why Salman Rushdie's ability to conjure magic with words makes him a favourite • 'Boys Over Flowers' to 'Extraordinary Attorney Woo': Tracing evolution of female friendships in K-dramas • Watching Meena Kumari in Pakeezah, I learned how to to strive for beauty • Delhi Crime Season 2 review: Informed, politically charged show with Shefali Shah in top form • Liger movie review: Vijay Deverakonda's fun ride is acutely aware of its strengths • Decoding the art at the heart of Only Murders in the Building Season 2 • The Shah Rukh Khan cameo and what it represents: Love, ambition, and irreverence for both • Saints Row Review: Trying hard to make gangster chic relevant again • Queer As Folk's rewriting and rethinking of queer subjectivity is refreshing for a TV series • The heart and hubris of homecoming: When escaping masquerades as returning • From brewing potions to potting a mandrake: Philly exhibition calls out to Potterheads for a touch of magic • Darlings and Masaba Masaba: Mother-daughters are coming of age • Better Call Saul Season 6 review: Updates Breaking Bad's adrenaline rush with its formative brilliance • Never Have I Ever season 3 review: Devi grows from being selfish, messy to mature, confident • Indian Matchmaking season 2 review: Empty fan service • Laal Singh Chaddha movie review: Aamir Khan's Forrest Gump adaptation has no spine of its own • Raksha Bandhan movie review: Akshay Kumar film treats women as cattle • In Darlings, Vishal Bhardwaj and Gulzar create sonic seesaw that never lulls • Forrest Gump opening scene encapsulates character's innocence and adventures • Vikrant Rona director Anup Bhandari breaks down Kichcha Sudeep starrer, and possibilities of a franchise • Ranveer Singh's 'Paper' photoshoot is missed opportunity to examine ideas of the Indian body, masculinity • The Sandman review: Dark, fascinating story of immense magnitude • Why Alia Bhatt in Gully Boy seems like spiritual successor to her character in Darlings • Jaws and the fable of familyhood: Shifting the lens on Steven Spielberg's classic • Sita Ramam movie review: Good love story held together by great performances and technical team • Wedding Season movie review: Ethnic identity at constant odds with tired tropes • 'Sex And The City' opening credits placed a tutu in Times Square, and television changed forever • Thirteen Lives movie review: Ron Howard's Thai cave rescue prioritises integrity over spectacle • Bullet Train review: Brad Pitt's goofy charm powers this uneven action flick • Why is Bollywood still obsessed with toilet humour? • RENAISSANCE review: Beyoncé's new album isn't really the rebirth we were hoping for • Watch: Aditi Mittal and Christina McGillivray discuss season 2 of Women in Labour podcast • Beyond Ek Villain Returns: Why Bollywood can't get the serial killer sub-genre right • Jaadugar to Jhund, how football emerged as go-to sport of the marginalised on screen • Stray | Game Review • Togetherness, memory and grief • An Artist in Paris • Masaba Masaba Season 2 review: Small strides over big leaps • Dispatches from the CWG 2022 Opening Ceremony • Interview | 'Nomads' author Anthony Sattin • How Maratha incursions into Bengal had brutal domino effect on Indian history • Ek Villain Returns movie review: Makes you question your own existence • Good Luck Jerry movie review: Janhvi Kapoor crime comedy is delightful even when messy • Rahul Khanna finds social media ridiculous but Instagram fun • In conversation with Ms. Marvel music director Laura Karpman: 'I'm queer so I do recognise importance of representation • Vikrant Rona movie review: Glorious world-building, Kichcha Sudeepa's swag brought down by convoluted plot • Koffee with Karan Season 7: What changing aesthetics over the years say about talk show's audiences • Sanjay Dutt as Khalnayak: Why the actor needs to break bad again • Boyhood and the time-lapse of transience • Shamshera | Movie Review • The Gray Man | Movie Review • The Red Chess Republic • JLo, Ben Affleck make second chances at love great again • The coming-of-age superhero story has also come of age • Remembering Bhupinder Singh • 'First Light' full colour images captured by James Webb Space Telescope • Casting Coup | On Christian Bale's turn as Gorr in Thor: Love and Thunder • Hardit Singh Malik, the Royal Air Force and World War I • Metallica's Master of Puppets and its portrayal on screen • Jugjugg Jeeyo's Bheem Saini is a type we all know • Why MS Dhoni's footprints will never fade away • God of War Ragnarök gets a release date — finally. • Movie Review | Thor: Love and Thunder • Notes on watching Jujutsu Kaisen 0 on the big screen • Decoding Varun Dhawan's onscreen masculinity • R Madhavan and the case of the 'edgy' protagonist • Shut Up Sona review: Screams with silence, meditates in noise • Victim, Maurice, Heartstopper: Cinema's tryst with 'unspeakable love' over the years • In 'Graduation Day', alternative parenting and its own bitter-sweet triumphs and heartbreaks • Man vs. Bee validates those obsessed with the trivial • Future of Kolkata's trams in question: Functional mode of transport or nostalgic ode to the city? • Inheritance of loss: Navigating through genetic delusion (or hope) • As Karan Johar turns 50, locating queerness embedded in his movies • In 'My Name is Harvey Milk', an Indian recontextualisation of June 1978's iconic Hope Speech • Jugjugg Jeeyo movie review: Look beyond the wedding • International Yoga Day 2022: Asanas that help deal with sedentary lifestyle, fatigue, ageing and more • The Broken News depicts a side of media few know — that it's broke • Atish Dipankar Srijanan: How a prince from Bengal became cult figure in saving Buddhism • In 'Master of Curries', a test of love, friendship and identity between two gay men • Struggling to find space where I can be 'me': Notes from a neurodiverse individual's diary • As Watergate turns 50 today, does Gaslit redeem Martha Mitchell as justly as history does? • The Wonder Years: Little remains of the late '70s Kabul I loved, and remember • The Textual Tension of Modern Love • Humans of Jurassic World: From flesh-and-blood academics to superhero-like action figures • Nissim Ezekiel's 'A Time To Change' at 70: How the prolific poet, with his first book, heralded new era of Indian English poetry • Flexible like a dhanush, unmovable like a pahaad, front leg like loha: Bartonietz's ingredients for javelin success • Ms. Marvel's Shah Rukh Khan debate: Baazigar or Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge? Indian film critics weigh in • Akshay Kumar, Kangana Ranaut's failures show overtly siding with populist politics doesn't always translate to popularity with film audiences • Fragrances of Kannauj: How Tandon siblings aim to put Indian attar on global stage with Boond • In 'Pehli Shaadi', a hijra hopes of manifesting her imaginary worlds into reality • Jayeshbhai Jordaar's OTT reception begs the question: Why can't Yash Raj Films read the room? • Proof review: BTS new album is definitive proof of their supremacy • KK sang about transience of life but his voice asserted permanence of living • Layer'r Shot Deo's isn't the first (or last) sexist ad of its kind • The Ballad of Johnny and Amber • The remarkable journals of Muhammadi Begum • KK was the voice of a generation of collegegoers, on cusp of adulthood • Sidhu Moose Wala (11 June 1993-29 May 2022) • The Daisy Rockwell Interview • The Geetanjali Shree Interview • Anek | Movie Review • The Stranger Things Recap • Varshita Thatavarthi tells it like it is • Top Gun: Maverick | Movie Review • Sound of Azaan | Lucknow • Sound of Azaan • Notes on pain and womanhood • Akbar of Hindustan: Parvati Sharma on retracing an extraordinary emperor's legacy • The Selvaraghavan Interview • The Stylistic, Evocative Brilliance Of Saani Kaayidham • Remembering Pt Shivkumar Sharma • How Sam Raimi brings his own method to the madness of Dr Strange 2 • The Art of Performing Life • Kayalpatnam: A Sweet Retelling | Part I • Kayalpatnam: A Sweet Retelling | Part II • Mai and the reclaiming of women's rage • In one of Bengal's 'bonedi baris', a 300-year-old tradition of Basanti Puja • Raja Ganesh: How Bengal's Hindu kingmaker put his son on the throne as a Muslim • The fading cape of parenthood • Millie Bobby Brown, Maisie Williams and the toll of sexualising young actors • How the epic love story of a courtesan and prince has endured over time • Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor marry in Mumbai • Traversing 100 years of Ali Akbar Khan's towering musical legacy • KGF: Chapter 2 | Movie Review • There's little that's fantastic about 'Fantastic Beasts' franchise • Beast | Movie Review • As India's Muslim women are reduced to their hijabs, an art project offers empowering counter-narrative • Twenty-Five Twenty-One | Review • Why today's Bengal doesn't vote on religious lines: Looking to 1500-year-old Pala dynasty for answers • For Ekaya's Palak Shah, Indian textiles are the ultimate in luxury • Sharmaji Namkeen and the quiet triumphs of middle-class fathers • Alia Bhatt in Gangubai Kathiawadi exemplifies the vague yet vital nature of screen presence • Attack | Movie Review • Mansiya VP row: Religion, caste must not dictate what constitutes Indian art • What womanhood means, in 2022 • Meena Kumari beyond Pakeezah • Pakeezah beyond Meena Kumari • Hyun Bin, Son Ye-Jin announce wedding • House of the Dragon: HBO's Game of Thrones prequel to release on August 21 • Moon Knight | Review • Reading SS Rajamouli's RRR as a star alliance with political implications • Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, yes. But the Oscars' real injury lies elsewhere • How the hair trade became common strand of self-reliance for these East Medinipur women • A new exhibition celebrates the work of two of India's earliest women photographers • RRR | Movie Review • Our Poems are our Battle Songs | Sabika Abbas Naqvi • Viewing Instagram Dance Reels as a space for community and social performance • Bhang: An Edible History • 'Servant of the People' made Volodymyr Zelenskyy a star. Now he's living in its real-life sequel • Puneeth Rajkumar's James | Movie Review • Bad Buddy: How one little Thai show revolutionised the Boys' Love genre • 50 years of The Godfather • Could literary newsletters, and their influential creators, impact Indians' reading habits? • The Kashmir Files | Movie Review • WWE 2K22 | First Impressions • Elden Ring | Game Review • Incantations Over Water | Get a peek at Sharanya Manivannan's magical graphic novel • Why Lithuanian-Sanskrit similarities continue to intrigue linguists, two centuries on • UP 2022: Graphic Details | A comic by Vishwajyoti Ghosh • UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 14 • UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 13 • UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 12 • International Women's Day 2022 Special Edition • UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 11 • UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 10 • Abdulrazak Gurnah on finding the voices, stories that make up his acclaimed novels • In a sporting world devoid of characters, Shane Warne was a flashback to a bygone era • The Batman | Movie Review • UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 9 • 'Is it hitting you at all?' | Words exchanged and heard • UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 8 • Ukrainian filmmaker Dar Gai: 'We know what we're fighting for' • A Tale of Two Russias • Gangubai Kathiawadi | Movie Review • Mind Over Medals | Feat. Robin Uthappa • UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 7 • Valimai | Movie Review • Communities around Jabalpur's lakes and Goa's Mandovi river pay steep price for 'progress' • UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 6 • Courting kings and clout: How dubashes shaped history in early colonial India • Link between religious dogma and systemic violence isn’t straight — it’s queer • Amitesh Grover on his 'imageless photographs' • UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 5 • Sifu | Game Review • Bappi Lahiri's songs underscored the days of our lives in weird and wonderful ways • A brief history of Zinda Tilismath • Uncharted | Movie Review • UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 4 • Inside Gehraiyaan's dark heart: A reading of Shakun Batra's film as noir • UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 3 • As Qandeel Baloch's brother is acquitted by Pakistan court, revisiting slain star's biography • Hijab isn't the issue, hate and discrimination faced by Indian Muslim women is • UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 2 • UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 1 • Badhaai Do | Movie Review • Gehraiyaan | Movie Review • Mahaan | Movie Review • Bayard Rustin, Mahatma Gandhi, and the making of an American pacifist • Mind Over Medals | Feat. Ronjan Sodhi • Lata Mangeshkar's traces will flicker in India's everyday • Lata Mangeshkar passes away at 92 • Tamasha and the language of travelling • Looop Lapeta | Review • Rocket Boys | Review • All Of Us Are Dead | Review • Mind Over Medals #5 | Feat. PV Sindhu • Sherlock Holmes and India: Encountering Empire, exotica in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories • How Indian films are jumping onto the IP bandwagon • The Full Monty • Our Beloved Summer: The gentle subversiveness of Choi Woo-shik, Kim Da-mi's Netflix drama • Blossom's 20th anniversary makes visible Bengaluru's invisible transformations • A new field guide documents Arunachal Pradesh's rich flora • Mind Over Medals Episode #4 | Feat. Anjum Moudgil • Sony WF-1000XM4 | Gadget Review • Attack on Muslim man travelling with Hindu woman shows intent to normalise hate • Unpaused: Naya Safar | Review • How Pushpa: The Rise turned Allu Arjun into a pan-India star • God of War PC | Game Review • Thich Nhat Hanh's lessons are for life, death, and the journey between them • Annapurna Devi's mystique is unraveled in 'The Untold Story of a Reclusive Genius' • History of Kodiyala's Padmashali weavers forms warp and weft of a sari project • In 2 Bengal villages, submerged fields, homes legacy of Oct 2021 deluge • Who benefits from state honours, and how much, is a function of privilege • Bulli Bai isn't the first hate crime targeting Muslim women. It won't be the last • Mind Over Medals Episode 3 | Feat. Sunil Chhetri • 2022 is the year of Tahir Raj Bhasin • How 2017 actress assault case exposed Mollywood's misogyny • Deepthi Sasidharan | 'Museums remind us of where we come from' • A friend in need: Notes on DCH, ZNMD and Chhichhore • For queer people, friendships are fundamentally fraught • How Netflix's Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein subverts Baazigar • Revisiting Pandit Birju Maharaj's influence on dance in Indian films • 'Kaanta Laga' and the makings of a millennial moral panic • Koorka conundrum: Connecting a divisive Kerala tuber to Bharata's dictums • The Weeknd's Dawn FM | Album Review • Ranjish Hi Sahi | Review • A complete timeline of Australia's stand-off with Novak Djokovic • Mind Over Medals: A News9 Sports Podcast | Episode 2 feat. Pankaj and Shree Advani • Tintin's tryst with India • The one where Allahabad's Akbar woke up in Prayagraj • The Lost Daughter and the Unbearable Weariness of Motherhood • Anti-Christian violence reported across India in December • The Focal Point | Columns by Rahul Desai • 2022's 22 most anticipated fiction titles • Atrangi Re is proof that Aanand L Rai's female characters refuse to grow up • Spider-Man: No Way Home and WandaVision represent the future of MCU • Mind Over Medals Episode #1 | Feat. Abhinav Bindra • Swimming with the big fish, sustainably • Lamentations | Kuki Cultural Troupe • Lamentations | Konyak Cultural Troupe, Longchang • Year of Health & Care Workers | Aijaz Ahmad's on-duty despatches • Your guide to every major NFT drop in 2021 • The perfect New Year's Eve playlist • Caste through the camera • La té! Vé té ho! (Stop! Enough!) - Tetseo Sisters | Bluesanova • Vinita Chaitanya's designs are modern, luxurious and wholly individualistic • With 'Vinati: Songs from the Gita Govinda', Surupa Sen stamps her name as one of Odissi's greats • Varunika Saraf's art speaks to a present besieged by violence • The charming superhero universe of Minnal Murali • Christmas songs of India • Your guide to the James Webb Space Telescope • For families of Oting victims, no answers, only grief • The Matrix: Resurrections | Movie Review • Kabir Khan's 83 | Movie Review • The Witcher Season 2 on Netflix | Review • Netflix's Decoupled | Review • Pushpa: The Rise | Movie Review • Peng Shuai's isn't a cautionary tale, it's a testament to the grit of survivors everywhere • Spider-Man: No Way Home | Movie Review • Bangladesh's Liberation War, 50 years on • How Radio Ceylon ruled the airwaves in the 1950s • Shiva Keshavan lines up for seventh shot at Winter Olympics, this time as coach • Succession S3 | Review • Divya Cowasji's 'Remember Me' project traces all that we leave behind • The radical empathy of Dr Sarada Menon • A return to Rampur: Tira Khan's photos explore home as a place and an emotion • There's something about Adam Driver • As Halo Infinite launches, a look at franchise's journey so far • History beckons, and threatens, Lewis Hamilton • Mehfil-e-Nazm: Listen to Fahmida Riaz's 'Aqlima' & 'Tum Bilkul Hum Jaise Nikle' • The Weight of Water, on climate change's toll in Nepal, is the documentary this crisis needs • Tripura violence leaves aftermath of debris, trauma in once-quiet communities • Idol hands for the goddess' workshops • Why health is more political than we perceive it to be • The KPod | Episode 2 • Five SS22 trends that were an antidote to pandemic dressing • How art met fashion in Spring/Summer 2022 accessories • Bengaluru cops' veto of Munawar Faruqui's show upholds majoritarianism, not law • From Spencer to The Crown to Diana: The enduring enigma of the People's Princess • With Spencer, Pablo Larraín liberates Diana's legacy by refusing to preserve it • Spencer | Movie Review • In Spencer, Pablo Larrain frames Diana like a Renaissance painting model • Does Ajinkya Rahane still deserve his spot in the XI? • Munawar Faruqui: 'I think this is the end' • A Qawwali photo project brings untold stories of practitioners and forms to the fore • Hellbound's brand of hellish realism delivers a punch to the gut • Preppy style returns to pop culture, the runway — and our closets • Mehfil-e-Nazm | Ahmad Faraz's 'Mat Qatl Karo' & 'Ab Ke Hum Bichhde Toh' • Harjeet Singh has become an afterthought for Indian hockey • It's BTS' universe, and we're lucky to be living in it • The Wheel of Time is not the 'next Game of Thrones'. And that's a good thing. • Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh | Book Review • Exclusive: Monty Panesar on English cricket's racism crisis • From racetrack to ravines: How Tigmanshu Dhulia, Sanjay Chouhan wrote Paan Singh Tomar • Saurabh Kirpal as Delhi HC judge is chance for SC to walk the talk on safeguarding LGBT rights • Mahasweta Devi's 'Jangal Ke Davedar' | Read by Savita Rani • This Haveli Is Haunted: A Ramsay Brothers-themed Halloween poster