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Shaikh Ayaz

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Art & Culture
Tragic Heroes

The anonymous lives of Bollywood lookalikes

21 September 2012
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Art & Culture
The 3 am Nannies

As talent management agencies wrest control of a major chunk of Bollywood talent, the old-world secretaries, once the backbone of the star system, are fading away

30 August 2012
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Cinema
The Survival Skills of Randeep Hooda

Finally enjoying some success, the actor had at one point decided to give it all up, even movies, for equestrian pursuits

24 August 2012
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Cinema
Voice of Irreverence

The young and restless music composer Sneha Khanwalkar has had a distaste for ‘honey sweet’ musical voices since her childhood. The results are on young Indian lips today

12 August 2012
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Art & Culture
‘I still don’t know how to make films’

…says the poster boy of Bollywood’s alternative cinema

10 August 2012
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Cinema
Who Said Heroines Need to be Pretty Young Things?

At 47, director-choreographer Farah Khan makes her debut as an actress this year. She speaks of throwing starry tantrums and the frustration of not being the one in control on the sets

18 July 2012
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Art & Culture
The Artist Who Found His Voice in Prints

Krishna Reddy on the lessons of Nandalal Bose, memories of Santiniketan and Paris, and disappointment of not selling in India

02 July 2012
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Art & Culture
The Loneliest Superstar Ever

From the dizzying heights of stardom to the depths of despair, the Rajesh Khanna story is unsurpassable

23 June 2012
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Cinema
Department

With this, it’s clear Ram Gopal Varma has exhausted himself on the mafia-police nexus

27 May 2012
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Cinema
Ishaqzaade

An anti-love story that collapses into a pamphlet on interfaith marriages

17 May 2012

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

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