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Arijit Bose
Apr 22, 20184 min read
Will Yashwant Sinha prove to be BJP’s Achilles heel?
BJP faces strong criticism from all quarters on multiple fronts and its road to 2019 is now turning out to be a very rocky one. Voices...
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Arijit Bose
Apr 19, 20181 min read
#Asifa: Torn Apart
It’s dark and dreadful I have died each day on streets of this great land As I died in rather irksome circumstances Torn apart by people...
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Arijit Bose
Apr 18, 20182 min read
New Asifa fetish on darkweb speaks volumes of India’s Sanskaar
The Asifa story is disturbing at many levels. It is nothing surprising that much like the Jyoti Singh gangrape and consequent death, even...
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Arijit Bose
Apr 12, 20183 min read
How a local Ramleela changed the life of young Kundan Lal Saigal
In a country where Yo Yo Honey Singh and Badshah are a rage these days, the generation of today has little memory of Kundan Lal Saigal, a...
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Arijit Bose
Apr 9, 20182 min read
Adyaant is about being lonely, psychic and all things dark
Loneliness kills and some even suffer that sinking feeling at a very early age in life. Loosely based on the haunted house in Kolkata’s...
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Arijit Bose
Apr 4, 20183 min read
Starting life at 4 with Leatherface, Bollywood’s Meena Kumari scripted a Cinderella like fairytale
This slideshow requires JavaScript. Born to be a star, Meena Kumari was considered a burden by her parents – Ali Bux and Iqbal Begum –...
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Arijit Bose
Apr 1, 20183 min read
Kapil Mohan, a teetotaller who gave India it’s finest Rum ‘Old Monk’
Imagine a man who never sipped one bit of alcohol but still emerged as a leading force in the liquor business and the first person who...
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Arijit Bose
Mar 31, 20183 min read
Christopher Wylie: The man in the eye of the Facebook Storm
Christopher Wylie’s strange and intriguing path from Canadian political operative to digital soldier to a whistle-blower has been long...
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Arijit Bose
Mar 25, 20183 min read
Lucknow’s Art Street that goes beyond just Nawabiyat
Imagine a world where Dhyan Chand, Cliff Richard, Atal Behari Vajpayee, Naushad Ali , Trevor Keelor and Mir Taqi Meer all coexisted in...
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Arijit Bose
Mar 23, 20185 min read
Living Tales Exclusive: Scarred but not scared
This slideshow requires JavaScript. It’s a Saturday afternoon and the sun is as bright as a firefly. Amidst the slight breeze that...
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Arijit Bose
Mar 18, 20182 min read
These photos by Lucknow Camera Club speak a thousand words….
This slideshow requires JavaScript. When modernity marries what is slightly old it often brings out a unique blend of creative...
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Arijit Bose
Mar 10, 20182 min read
Women’s Day Special: Nine years after an acid attack, a knight swept a gritty Rani off her feet
Rani with her other half Saroj Sahu “Like a flower, waiting to bloom Like a lightbulb, in a dark room I’m just sittin’ here waiting for...
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Arijit Bose
Mar 6, 20182 min read
Hansal Mehta’s Omerta digs deeper into the life of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh
TheOmertaStory Touted as one of his most explosive pieces of work, Rajkumar Rao plays kidnapper and executioner of Daniel Pearl in Hansal...
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Arijit Bose
Dec 26, 20173 min read
Undoing of the man behind India’s Most Wanted
Every man reaching the pinnacle of success one day falls from grace and acclaimed TV producer, Suhaib Ilyasi has been no different....
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Arijit Bose
Dec 16, 20175 min read
Less than 1% Justice being delivered by Indian courts says Prashant Bhushan
Rajeev Yadav and Shahnawaz Alam have been fighting a lonely battle to document hate speech and advocating for terror suspects booked in...
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Arijit Bose
Dec 13, 20172 min read
Before Virat, this Skipper too got smitten by the beauty of an onscreen goddess
This slideshow requires JavaScript. Courtesy – Pics sourced from the net Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma have finally tied the knot for a...
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Arijit Bose
Dec 10, 20173 min read
#MuslimLivesMatter: Lucknow’s Silent Mutiny to save Muslim Lives
This slideshow requires JavaScript. Ironical though it may seem just as the sun set a stone’s throw away from the BJP headquarters at the...
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Arijit Bose
Dec 9, 20172 min read
An artistic flicker of HOPE at Lucknow’s Kalasrot
This slideshow requires JavaScript. Hope – the perspective of real seeing an exhibition of drawings, paintings and sculptures by...
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Arijit Bose
Dec 3, 20173 min read
How BSP this UP civic polls has proven to be the elephant in the room
Dalit Czarina Mayawati Mayawati’s misfortunes in the Indian polity started from her downfall in the elections of 2012 when she lost the...
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Arijit Bose
Nov 11, 20173 min read
Amrita – Sahir: An Affair to Remember
Garam Hawa fame, MS Sathyu’s Amrita – A Sublime Love Story is a play written by Danish Iqbal which tells you love is not for the faint...
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