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    Nawaid Anjum
    About the AuthorNawaid Anjum
    Nawaid Anjum is the Features Editor at The Federal. He can be reached at [email protected]
    2025 Booker Prize shortlist
    Features

    How the 2025 Booker Prize shortlist spotlights mostly established authors

    28 Sept 2025 6:30 AM IST
    National film awards
    Films

    How honouring Mohanlal, Shah Rukh Khan seeks to restore faith in the National Awards

    24 Sept 2025 11:50 AM IST
    Anuparna Roy-indie-women-filmmakers
    Films

    What Anuparna Roy’s win at Venice Film Festival means for indie women filmmakers

    22 Sept 2025 12:10 PM IST
    Zubeen Garg
    Entertainment

    Zubeen Garg obit: The voice that carried Assam’s love, longing and loss in its timbre

    21 Sept 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Robert Redford
    Films

    Robert Redford obit: How the ‘sex symbol of the Seventies’ changed Hollywood

    17 Sept 2025 5:12 PM IST
    Adolescence
    Entertainment

    Emmy Awards 2025: The Studio, Adolescence win big in a night of sweeps, surprises

    15 Sept 2025 9:40 AM IST
    Bhupen Hazarika-Assam
    Features

    Bhupen Hazarika at 100: The jajabor who sang of Assam, its people and the world

    14 Sept 2025 6:30 AM IST
    The Godfather
    Films

    How Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather became a landmark saga in gangster genre

    10 Sept 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Giorgio Armani
    Features

    How Giorgio Armani reengineered the suit, and stitched Hollywood into his empire

    5 Sept 2025 6:42 PM IST
    English dictionary
    Features

    New words in Cambridge Dictionary: How the Internet is changing English language

    26 Aug 2025 8:30 AM IST
    Aatish Taseer
    Features

    Aatish Taseer interview: ‘India is a difficult country to belong to, or even care about’

    17 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Hindi-cinema-patriotic songs-freedom-Indpendence-Day
    Features

    How Hindi cinema’s patriotic songs have stirred India’s heart since Independence

    14 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    The Dark Hours of the Night
    Features

    Salma interview: ‘Tamil Nadu a mature state, BJP will never win it’ | Culture Vibes

    10 Aug 2025 12:00 PM IST
    Kashmir books
    Features

    How banning 25 books in Kashmir is far more dangerous than we could imagine

    9 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Ullozhukku
    Films

    Ullozhukku: In Christo Tomy’s film, two women rise above the flood of grief, loneliness

    5 Aug 2025 9:15 AM IST
    Mehak Jamal on love and longing in Kashmir
    Features

    Love in a land of silence: Mehak Jamal’s Kashmir through ‘loal’

    3 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Shah Rukh Khan
    Films

    Shah Rukh Khan, Jawan, and the politics of National Awards, with fading credibility

    3 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Varanasi
    Features

    From Varanasi to Mecca, how pilgrimages changed 19 cities around the world

    20 July 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Vasundhara on writing, AI and cinema
    Features

    Tamil actor Vasundhara on ‘The Accused’, social media, truth, and storytelling

    14 July 2025 7:07 AM IST
    Superman review: Man of Steel gets bold reboot for the age of disinformation
    Film Reviews

    Superman review: Man of Steel gets bold reboot for the age of disinformation

    12 July 2025 9:12 AM IST
    Guru Dutt at 100: How the auteur of Hindi cinema made melancholia his signature
    Films

    Guru Dutt at 100: How the auteur of Hindi cinema made melancholia his signature

    9 July 2025 1:00 PM IST
    Manam Chocolate
    Features

    How Hyderabad’s Manam is putting Indian craft chocolate on the world map

    7 July 2025 9:28 AM IST
    Why sports drama remains Hindi cinema’s most bankable genre
    The Eighth Column

    Why sports drama remains Hindi cinema’s most bankable genre

    7 July 2025 6:59 AM IST
    Sonam Kalra
    Features

    Sonam Kalra interview: ‘Art must be used for something greater than oneself’

    2 July 2025 7:03 AM IST
    JCB prize for literature
    Features

    How the JCB Prize For Literature lost its way and shut down quietly

    26 Jun 2025 8:09 AM IST
    Elio
    Films

    How Pixar’s Elio turns childhood loneliness into an intergalactic adventure

    22 Jun 2025 7:30 AM IST
    Iranian cinema
    Films

    How Iranian cinema has captured its changing society through the decades

    21 Jun 2025 6:26 AM IST
    Sidhu Moose Wala-The Killing Call
    Entertainment

    The Killing Call: BBC documentary unravels why Sidhu Moose Wala was killed

    17 Jun 2025 7:17 AM IST
    Panchayat Season 4
    Entertainment

    Panchayat Season 4 drops on June 24: How it became India’s best-loved series

    15 Jun 2025 2:19 PM IST
    Frederick Forsyth
    Features

    How Frederick Forsyth, a war correspondent, became the thriller legend

    15 Jun 2025 6:30 AM IST
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