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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]
    Melania
    Entertainment

    How Amazon’s $75 million documentary on Melania Trump became a colossal disaster

    31 Jan 2026 7:53 PM IST
    Arijit Singh
    Entertainment

    Why Arijit Singh has quit playback singing at the peak of his Bollywood career

    30 Jan 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Sanjay Leela Bhansali
    Films

    Why Sanjay Leela Bhansali has been roped in for cinema’s first Republic Day tableau

    25 Jan 2026 8:35 PM IST
    Sinners
    Films

    How Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, with 16 Oscar nods, marks a turning point for Black-led cinema

    24 Jan 2026 7:13 PM IST
    Oscars: Geeta Gandbhir’s two nods put focus on Indian-origin documentary filmmakers
    Entertainment

    Oscars: Geeta Gandbhir’s two nods put focus on Indian-origin documentary filmmakers

    23 Jan 2026 7:54 PM IST
    AR Rahman
    Entertainment

    Why the backlash against AR Rahman is unfair and an act of cultural illiteracy

    21 Jan 2026 6:30 AM IST
    wellbeing through water
    Features

    How big lifestyle brands are tapping the idea of wellbeing through water

    19 Jan 2026 1:40 PM IST
    Freedom at Midnight
    Entertainment

    Freedom at Midnight: How Nikkhil Advani’s Partition series has sparked a war over history

    16 Jan 2026 11:15 AM IST
    water crisis
    Features

    How India’s water crisis is not just due to climate change, but also governance failure

    8 Jan 2026 9:50 AM IST
    Books of 2026
    Features

    2026 reading list: All the books everyone will be talking about this year

    5 Jan 2026 1:23 PM IST
    Films of 2026
    Films

    Most anticipated films of 2026: Hollywood bets big on franchises, adaptations, auteurs

    3 Jan 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Salman Khan
    Films

    Salman Khan at 60: Portrait of a superstar of Hindi cinema who became his own genre

    27 Dec 2025 3:50 PM IST
    Christmas preparation
    Features

    Turkey, plum cake, gingerbread desserts: How big hotels are doing Christmas this year

    25 Dec 2025 12:12 PM IST
    Christmas films
    Films

    Ho Ho hold that remote: 10 Christmas films worth re-watching this holiday season

    25 Dec 2025 9:00 AM IST
    Dhurandhar: How Aditya Dhar’s lavish spy thriller pushes nationalist propaganda
    Films

    Dhurandhar: How Aditya Dhar’s lavish spy thriller pushes nationalist propaganda

    24 Dec 2025 6:30 AM IST
    The Great Shamsuddin Family
    Film Reviews

    The Great Shamsuddin Family review: A tender portrait of middle-class Indian Muslims

    16 Dec 2025 10:35 AM IST
    MGNREGA workers
    India

    Why Centre’s plan to remove Mahatma Gandhi from MGNREGA has triggered a political storm

    14 Dec 2025 3:30 PM IST
    Bigg Boss 19
    Entertainment

    How Bigg Boss, one of the oldest reality shows, has turned into a ‘scripted farce’

    8 Dec 2025 7:07 PM IST
    Badshah
    Entertainment

    How Badshah, set to headline London’s O2 Arena, became India’s superstar rapper

    7 Dec 2025 2:38 PM IST
    Jafar Panahi
    Films

    How Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi keeps reinventing against the state’s repression

    6 Dec 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Auto Queens-Chennai-auto drivers
    Entertainment

    Auto Queens: A chronicle of Chennai’s women auto drivers, their solidarity and struggle

    2 Dec 2025 9:25 AM IST
    How ITC Maurya’s Avartana reinvents South Indian cuisine with flair
    Features

    How ITC Maurya’s Avartana reinvents South Indian cuisine with flair

    23 Nov 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Aranya Sahay-Humans-in-the Loop-AI
    Films

    How Aranya Sahay’s Humans in the Loop spotlights rural, invisible workers training AI

    20 Nov 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Kanu Behl interview: ‘Agra is a film about desire and sexual repression’
    Entertainment

    Kanu Behl interview: ‘Agra is a film about desire and sexual repression’

    13 Nov 2025 7:20 PM IST
    Shah Rukh Khan at 60
    Films

    60 years of Shah Rukh Khan and the 1990s boys who grew up on his films

    2 Nov 2025 2:38 PM IST
    Arthur Conan Doyle-Sherlock-Holmes
    Features

    Arthur Conan Doyle and the many lives of Sherlock Holmes, world’s most famous detective

    1 Nov 2025 12:55 PM IST
    Enrique Iglesias
    Entertainment

    Enrique Iglesias essential playlist: 10 songs that still make us sing along

    29 Oct 2025 1:16 PM IST
    Stéphane Breitwieser-the-art-thief
    Features

    How Frenchman Stéphane Breitwieser became world’s most prolific art thief

    25 Oct 2025 12:30 PM IST
    László Krasznahorkai’s Sátántangó
    Features

    Why Nobel winner Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s Satantango is eerily familiar in today’s India

    24 Oct 2025 9:45 AM IST
    Taj Mahal-The Taj Story
    Features

    How Taj Mahal, the Mughal monument of love, has become a bee in BJP’s bonnet

    22 Oct 2025 6:30 AM IST
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