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Besides social media accounts, nawaidanjum has populated their site with Review: The Ashes Are Warm by Mahesh Bhatt, Sony WH-1000XM6 review: The headphones for people who sometimes need the world on mute, How Batt Koch, the indie film on plight of Pandits, is an antidote to The Kashmir Files, Bharathiraja obituary: The filmmaker who took Tamil cinema back to its soil, Marjane Satrapi: The cartographer of exile and unforgotten grief, Zynaty Living’s first flagship experience centre brings bespoke interiors, craftsmanship and luxury under one roof, Chef Davinder Kumar on bringing a taste of Portugal’s Baixo Alentejo to the Indian table, From Colonialism to Queer Desire: Why Taiwanese Literature Feels So Urgent Today, How Austrian Chef Philipp Dyczek brought the Michelin-starred taste of Graz to Delhi, Migrant exodus during COVID-19 pandemic was a failure of the state I Jyoti Yadav interview, How Haruki Murakami came to write his first woman-led novel, The Tale of Kaho, How Dakhni declined as Deccan court language, became a vernacular after Mughal conquest, Shekhar Kapur’s new series, My Name Is Memory, to centre on reincarnation, eternal love, Babban Khan obit: Creator of Adrak Ke Panje, custodian of Dakhani wit and humour, Why all Indians, irrespective of caste, owe BR Ambedkar something, Asha Bhosle obit: The unstoppable voice of Hindi playback singing that refused to be typecast, Karan Dhanelia, World Class Bartender of the Year 2026, on his cocktail experiments, Ramayana: Why Nitesh Tiwari’s two-part film has sparked a debate, divided viewers, International Booker Prize shortlist: Six novels of exile, resistance and human defiance, Lego Trump, Chibi-style short, Teletubbies: How Iran is using memes as a weapon, Mother Mary Comes to Me: How Arundhati Roy’s mother made and unmade her, As MM Naravane’s memoir sparks interest, his thriller makes it to Amazon bestseller lists, How Amazon’s $75 million documentary on Melania Trump became a colossal disaster, Ghooskhor Pandat: Why row over Neeraj Pandey-backed Manoj Bajpayee cop drama is a non-issue, Why Arijit Singh has quit playback singing at the peak of his Bollywood career, Why Sanjay Leela Bhansali has been roped in for cinema’s first Republic Day tableau, How Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, with 16 Oscar nods, marks a turning point for Black-led cinema, Oscars: Geeta Gandbhir’s two nods put focus on Indian-origin documentary filmmakers, Why the backlash against AR Rahman is unfair and an act of cultural illiteracy, How big lifestyle brands are tapping the idea of wellbeing through water, Freedom at Midnight: How Nikkhil Advani’s Partition series has sparked a war over history, How India’s water crisis is not just due to climate change, but also governance failure, 2026 reading list: All the books everyone will be talking about this year, Most anticipated films of 2026: Hollywood bets big on franchises, adaptations, auteurs, Salman Khan at 60: Portrait of a superstar of Hindi cinema who became his own genre, ‘धुरंधर’ और नए दौर का राष्ट्रवादी सिनेमा, विलेन सुपरस्टार और हीरो पीछे | Dhurandhar Blockbuster Spy Thriller or a Political Propaganda Film, The Great Shamsuddin Family review: A tender portrait of middle-class Indian Muslims, Dhurandhar: How Aditya Dhar’s lavish spy thriller pushes nationalist propaganda, How Bigg Boss, one of the oldest reality shows, has turned into a ‘scripted farce’, How Badshah, set to headline London’s O2 Arena, became India’s superstar rapper, How Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi keeps reinventing against the state’s repression, Auto Queens: A chronicle of Chennai’s women auto drivers, their solidarity and struggle, How ITC Maurya’s Avartana reinvents South Indian cuisine with flair, How Aranya Sahay’s Humans in the Loop spotlights rural, invisible workers training AI, Kanu Behl interview: ‘Agra is a film about desire and sexual repression’, 60 years of Shah Rukh Khan and the 1990s boys who grew up on his films, How Frenchman Stéphane Breitwieser became world’s most prolific art thief, Why Nobel winner Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s Satantango is eerily familiar in today’s India, Tribeny Rai interview: ‘Sikkim lives in my mind as pieces of places, people, sounds’, 10 must-read books by 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature winner László Krasznahorkai, Nobel Prize in Literature 2025: Who will win the world’s biggest literary honour?, James Bond Day: Why 007, world’s most famous spy, must reinvent himself to stay relevant, How J.K. 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