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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]
    2026 International Booker Prize
    Features

    International Booker Prize shortlist: Six novels of exile, resistance and human defiance

    2 April 2026 3:54 PM IST
    Iran-lego-meme-war-weapon
    Features

    Lego Trump, Chibi-style short, Teletubbies: How Iran is using memes as a weapon

    2 April 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Arundhati Roy
    Features

    Mother Mary Comes to Me: How Arundhati Roy’s mother made and unmade her

    29 March 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Dawood Ibrahim-Dhurandhar
    Films

    Dhurandhar: The Revenge’s Bade Sahab: The unmaking of Dawood Ibrahim, India’s ‘most wanted’ don

    26 March 2026 6:30 AM IST
    The Voice of Hind Rajab: India has blocked this film on Gaza, but heres why you must watch it
    Films

    The Voice of Hind Rajab: India has blocked this film on Gaza, but here's why you must watch it

    21 March 2026 2:33 PM IST
    Monkey Punch: The manga legend who gave viral Japanese macaque a name
    Features

    Monkey Punch: The manga legend who gave viral Japanese macaque a name

    15 March 2026 11:24 AM IST
    The Bride!: Maggie Gyllenhaal reimagines Frankenstein as a tale of creation, feminist rage
    Film Reviews

    The Bride!: Maggie Gyllenhaal reimagines Frankenstein as a tale of creation, feminist rage

    14 March 2026 6:18 PM IST
    Iran women novels
    Features

    How two women writers portray Iran in International Booker Prize-longlisted novels

    10 March 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Protests and unrest Iran streets
    Features

    ‘Martyr’ or ‘tyrant’: How world’s major media outlets see Khamenei’s killing

    4 March 2026 2:20 PM IST
    Author Raghavan Srinivasan portrait
    Features

    Raghavan Srinivasan on how Tamil saints led India’s first spiritual rebellion, Bhakti Movement

    3 March 2026 4:59 PM IST
    Hamnet review
    Film Reviews

    Hamnet review: Chloé Zhao’s masterly, intimate portrait of William Shakespeare’s grief

    3 March 2026 6:30 AM IST
    The Kerala Story
    Films

    How The Kerala Story franchise turns manufactured numbers into manufactured rage

    22 Feb 2026 6:30 AM IST
    How Sam Mendes’ quartet of films on The Beatles aims to tell Fab Four’s whole story
    Films

    How Sam Mendes’ quartet of films on The Beatles aims to tell Fab Four’s whole story

    17 Feb 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Wuthering Heights
    Films

    “Wuthering Heights”: How Emerald Fennell reworks Emily Brontë’s novel about destructive love

    14 Feb 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Manoj Naravane
    Features

    As MM Naravane’s memoir sparks interest, his thriller makes it to Amazon bestseller lists

    10 Feb 2026 3:21 PM IST
    Ghooskhor Pandat
    Films

    Ghooskhor Pandat: Why row over Neeraj Pandey-backed Manoj Bajpayee cop drama is a non-issue

    6 Feb 2026 12:53 PM IST
    Dalai Lama’s Grammy-winning spoken-word album ‘Meditations’ is an urgent call for oneness
    Features

    Dalai Lama’s Grammy-winning spoken-word album ‘Meditations’ is an urgent call for oneness

    2 Feb 2026 4:25 PM IST
    Grammys 2026
    Entertainment

    Grammys 2026: The Dalai Lama wins first award, Kendrick Lamar makes history

    2 Feb 2026 1:30 PM IST
    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
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