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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]
    Oscars 2025: Did the Academy play it safe by avoiding controversial films?
    Films

    Oscars 2025: Did the Academy play it safe by avoiding controversial films?

    3 March 2025 4:33 PM IST
    The Brutalist
    Films

    Oscars 2025: A look at the top contenders, and other films tipped to win

    2 March 2025 1:00 PM IST
    Olympe Ramakrishna
    Features

    Olympe Ramakrishna interview: ‘My work aims to tell a universal story of femininity’

    1 March 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Gene Hackman obit: How the everyman actor became a reluctant Hollywood icon
    Films

    Gene Hackman obit: How the everyman actor became a reluctant Hollywood icon

    28 Feb 2025 9:51 AM IST
    Anand Neelakantan on his latest book, ‘Many Ramayanas, Many Lessons, and the countless retellings of the Ramayana across ages
    Features

    Anand Neelakantan interview: ‘Each culture has made Ramayana its own’

    26 Feb 2025 6:30 PM IST
    The Outsiders-Devi Yesodharan
    Features

    Devi Yesodharan interview: ‘Migration is a journey of hope, but it hyphenates identity’

    25 Feb 2025 1:20 PM IST
    James Bond: As Amazon MGM takes control, will 007 still have a license to thrill?
    Films

    James Bond: As Amazon MGM takes control, will 007 still have a license to thrill?

    23 Feb 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Delhi
    Features

    Delhi: In search of the city of ruins, ghosts, migrants and power play

    21 Feb 2025 5:05 PM IST
    The Phoenician Scheme is inspired from the iconography of the 1950s sci-fi films.
    Films

    Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme: What to expect from the espionage thriller

    19 Feb 2025 9:10 AM IST
    Radhika Vekaria interview: ‘Sanskrit mantras smash the unreal, reveal what’s real’
    Features

    Radhika Vekaria interview: ‘Sanskrit mantras smash the unreal, reveal what’s real’

    16 Feb 2025 6:30 AM IST
    dating apps
    Features

    Love in the age of algorithm: How dating apps are rewriting rules of romance

    14 Feb 2025 7:13 PM IST
    love in the time of radio
    Features

    Love on the air: How romance played out over the radio waves in India

    14 Feb 2025 10:30 AM IST
    Valentines Day: How Hindi cinema gave us a wrong blueprint of love for decades
    The Eighth Column

    Valentine's Day: How Hindi cinema gave us a wrong blueprint of love for decades

    14 Feb 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Preeti Shenoy
    Features

    Preeti Shenoy interview: ‘Love isn’t always socially acceptable, it exists in the grey’

    13 Feb 2025 6:10 PM IST
    Valentines Day-Promise Day
    Features

    Valentine’s Day 2025, Promise Day: An Indian guide to keeping your word in love

    11 Feb 2025 6:13 PM IST
    Githa Hariharan
    Features

    Githa Hariharan interview: ‘Lived diversity under threat, exclusion process has begun’

    11 Feb 2025 12:42 PM IST
    Chandrika Tandon on Grammy
    Features

    Chandrika Tandon interview: ‘Music is spiritual; Grammy cherry on the cake’

    7 Feb 2025 10:45 PM IST
    Chandrika Tandon
    Features

    Chandrika Tandon interview: ‘Music has a way of getting into your soul’

    7 Feb 2025 7:40 PM IST
    Alternative music, global healing: Indian-origin musicians strike a chord at the Grammys
    The Eighth Column

    Alternative music, global healing: Indian-origin musicians strike a chord at the Grammys

    7 Feb 2025 4:00 AM IST
    OreGin-Manpreet Singh
    Features

    Craft gin revolution: How Indian makers make the most of local botanicals

    5 Feb 2025 4:40 PM IST
    Chandrika Tandon
    Entertainment

    How Chandrika Tandon’s spiritual odyssey led to her first Grammy at 71

    4 Feb 2025 9:36 AM IST
    Bhargav Saikia-Bokshi
    Films

    Bhargav Saikia interview: ‘Ecology, feminism run parallel to each other in Bokshi’

    3 Feb 2025 6:15 PM IST
    Mona Lisa
    Features

    Mona Lisa: How Leonardo da Vinci’s painting became art world’s most abiding obsession

    31 Jan 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Susmit Sen
    Features

    Susmit Sen interview: ‘I felt creatively suffocated with Indian Ocean’

    28 Jan 2025 8:15 AM IST
    Book review T V Paul
    Features

    T. V. Paul interview: ‘Trump is likely to bring more challenges for India’

    27 Jan 2025 5:00 PM IST
    The Seed of the the Sacred Fig
    Film Reviews

    The Seed of the Sacred Fig: A harrowing political drama on women’s protests in Iran

    27 Jan 2025 9:35 AM IST
    Rama Bhima Soma-Karnataka-Srikar Raghavan
    Features

    Srikar Raghavan interview: ‘Impossible to destroy Karnataka’s richly inclusive legacy’

    25 Jan 2025 2:45 PM IST
    Mughal-e-Azam-Feroz Abbas Khan’
    Entertainment

    ‘Mughal-e-Azam: The Musical’: What makes Feroz Abbas Khan’s play a thing of wonder

    23 Jan 2025 4:45 PM IST
    Saif Ali Khan
    Entertainment

    Saif Ali Khan: The curious case of Hindi cinema’s gentleman rogue

    21 Jan 2025 4:16 PM IST
    Coldplay
    Entertainment

    Coldplay playlist: 10 most popular songs by band you can play on loop

    19 Jan 2025 10:31 AM IST
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