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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]
    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
    Art for earth: How contemporary Indian artists draw on ecological crisis
    The Eighth Column

    Art for earth: How contemporary Indian artists draw on ecological crisis

    17 Jan 2025 7:46 AM IST
    Los Angeles wildfire
    Features

    Los Angeles wildfires: Flames can devour homes, but love and memories remain

    17 Jan 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Kumarakom-Kerala
    Features

    10 travel destinations in India perfect for Tier 2, Tier 3 city explorers

    16 Jan 2025 9:15 AM IST
    Expanding Horizon-GR Iranna’s Silent Portrait
    Features

    ‘Expanding Horizons’: New show in Delhi envisions art as a blueprint for tomorrow

    14 Jan 2025 10:35 AM IST
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    Entertainment

    Atul Kumar on directing The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

    12 Jan 2025 1:30 PM IST
    Pritish Nandy
    Features

    Pritish Nandy obit: The ‘nowhere’ man who donned many hats with singular grace

    9 Jan 2025 12:45 PM IST
    Emilia Pérez
    Films

    Emilia Pérez: France's official Oscar entry is an ode to the agony of gender dysphoria

    8 Jan 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Notable books of 2025
    Features

    Notable books of 2025 you can look forward to reading, and adding to your TBR list

    2 Jan 2025 2:14 PM IST
    Shyam Benegal obit: Cartographer of Indian psyche whose frames mapped our stories
    Films

    Shyam Benegal obit: Cartographer of Indian psyche whose frames mapped our stories

    24 Dec 2024 10:55 AM IST
    Upamanyu Chatterjee
    Features

    Books yearender 2024: Return of Upamanyu Chatterjee, the sharp-eyed chronicler of Indian ennui

    21 Dec 2024 6:30 AM IST
    Zakir Hussain
    Features

    Zakir Hussain obit: The maestro who made the tabla sing and do all the talking

    16 Dec 2024 1:42 PM IST
    Awara-Raj Kapoor
    Films

    10 films by Raj Kapoor, the ’greatest showman’ who dreamed in cinemascope

    14 Dec 2024 3:40 PM IST
    One Hundred Years of Solitude: Márquez’s magical fever dream limns time, love and memory
    Features

    One Hundred Years of Solitude: Márquez’s magical fever dream limns time, love and memory

    13 Dec 2024 8:45 AM IST
    Raj Kapoor
    Films

    Raj Kapoor at 100: The showman who held up a mirror to a nation’s hopes and despair

    12 Dec 2024 9:08 AM IST
    Ministhy S.
    Features

    Ministhy S. interview: ‘Malayalam script has pristine originality, poetry and lilting melody’

    7 Dec 2024 6:30 AM IST
    The Book of Exodus by V. J. James
    Features

    V. J. James interview: ‘Literature must forewarn about consequences of human actions’

    5 Dec 2024 9:10 AM IST
    Ukrainian director Lesia Diak: ‘I feel like we are all on trial; war is testing our humanity’
    Programmes

    Ukrainian director Lesia Diak: ‘I feel like we are all on trial; war is testing our humanity’

    1 Dec 2024 8:00 AM IST
    Lesia Diak
    Films

    Ukrainian director Lesia Diak interview: ‘We’re all on trial; war testing our humanity’

    30 Nov 2024 6:30 AM IST
    Sambhal violence: As hate is normalised, we as a nation need to feel again
    Opinion

    Sambhal violence: As hate is normalised, we as a nation need to feel again

    29 Nov 2024 12:30 PM IST
    Why we must rage against the tyranny of monumentality, reclaim the small
    The Eighth Column

    Why we must rage against the tyranny of monumentality, reclaim the small

    29 Nov 2024 6:58 AM IST
    Taylor Treadwell
    Films

    Taylor Treadwell interview: ‘Challenge with drama, comedy is finding the right rhythm’

    28 Nov 2024 6:30 AM IST
    Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.2 million banana
    Opinion

    Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.2 mn taped banana unpeels the art world’s rot

    26 Nov 2024 6:30 AM IST
    Ramachandra Guha interview: No govt ever consults environmentalists | Interview
    Videos

    Ramachandra Guha interview: 'No govt ever consults environmentalists' | Interview

    25 Nov 2024 4:18 PM IST
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