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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]
    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
    Nayakan-South Indian cinema
    Films

    From Nayakan to Thug Life, how gangster drama in South cinema has evolved through decades

    14 Jun 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Boeing 787 Dreamliner
    Features

    How Boeing 787 Dreamliner became a game-changer for long-haul flights

    13 Jun 2025 6:01 PM IST
    Frederick Forsyth
    Features

    10 bestselling, cold-blooded political thrillers by Frederick Forsyth you must read

    10 Jun 2025 4:32 PM IST
    butterfly
    Features

    India’s bees and butterflies are vanishing, and taking our future with them

    5 Jun 2025 6:55 AM IST
    How women musicians of Indian descent are rewriting global soundtrack of devotion
    The Eighth Column

    How women musicians of Indian descent are rewriting global soundtrack of devotion

    5 Jun 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Women in Picasso’s life: Six muses who loved and survived one of world’s greatest painters
    The Eighth Column

    Women in Picasso’s life: Six muses who loved and survived one of world’s greatest painters

    27 May 2025 7:23 AM IST
    Banu Mushtaq
    Features

    What Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker win means for Indian literature in translation

    21 May 2025 6:36 PM IST
    Chef Shun Sato-Japanese-food
    Features

    Chef Shun Sato interview: What India can learn from Japan’s minimalist cuisine

    1 May 2025 2:20 PM IST
    How Ghibli trend has become the unwitting tool for propaganda in New India
    The Eighth Column

    How Ghibli trend has become the unwitting tool for propaganda in New India

    28 April 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Phule-Ananth-Mahadevan
    Films

    Ananth Mahadevan interview: ‘I want my films to speak the language of global cinema’

    27 April 2025 6:30 AM IST
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