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June 11, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Cinema

Actor-Politician Kirron Kher is a Style Diva with Grace and Elan

Smriti profiles the stunning and graceful Kirron Kher, an actor-activist-politician. The style diva turns 62, later this week. Read more about her, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different...

June 3, 2017
Samina Naqvi
Cinema

Bimal Roy Challenged the Taboos through his Cinema of Social Realism

Samina, a movie buff, talks about the life and times of the celebrated filmmaker, Bimal Roy. His cinema of social realism challenged the taboos that gripped the society then....

May 27, 2017
Samina Naqvi
Films

The Life and Times of Guru Dutt: He Became the Tragic Characters he Portrayed Onscreen – III

Samina concludes the three-part series on Guru Dutt, with his life and times. The boundaries between the reel and real life blurred. Here’s a tribute to the tragic hero,...

April 1, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Cinema

Bollywood Birthdays: Ajay Devgan, Praveen Babi, and Jeetendra took the Silver Screen by Storm – I

Three famous Bollywood actors, Ajay Devgan, Parveen Babi, and Jeetendra have their birthdays in the first week of April. Smriti, a movie buff, profiles them, in the new column,...

March 14, 2017
Eswar Anandan
Advocacy, People, Religion

Children of Hope: Face to Face with Dalai Lama

Eswar reminisces meeting His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama for the first time. He recalls the deep reverence among the Tibetan people for their religious leader. Read more about...

December 6, 2016
Geethanjali Dilip
Cover Story, Films, Homage, Politics

From Ammu to Amma: The Iron Lady of Unique Mettle of Tamilnadu

Geethanjali, who met the cine star, Jayalalithaa, as a child, pays a soulful tribute to the fiery, feisty and the proverbial Iron Lady of Tamilnadu, endearingly called ‘Amma’ by...

August 5, 2016
Baishali Mukherjee
Fashion & Beauty

Fashionista Varsha Infuses Italian Spirit into Indian Womenswear

Inclined in art and a keen fashion enthusiast, Varsha pursued her career in fashion, starting off with her foundation in art and design at London College of Fashion followed by...

July 17, 2016
Neelum S. Gour
Announcement

Read Gour’s Antiquarium – Retrobrowsing every Monday in Different Truths

Readers of just three or four decades back might have been familiar with the terrific magazine culture of those times. The arrival of the latest issue of Life or The...

June 19, 2016
Madhumita Ghosh
Cover Story, Human Rights, People

Seeking Refuge

Religious dissension partitioned of India in 1947. Two states, Bengal and Punjab, were spliced into two. An entire repertoire of Bengali literature, with its distinct echoes in cinema, documents the agony....

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