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BANGALORE, 15/12/201: Actor Om Puri at the inauguration of Bengaluru International Film Festival at Jnana Jyothi Auditorium, in Bangalore.
Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

One who rose above his roles

Om Puri (1950-2017) came into his own in Indian cinema with “Ardh Satya” and with his screen presence and dialogue delivery strode parallel and mainst

Crowd throng outside the Golcha Cinema hall which screens Salman Khan's film 'Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya' in New Delhi on July 15, 2005. Shiv Sena and Bajrang Dal activists demonstrated against actor Salman Khan disrupting screenings of his latest film, 'Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya,' in several parts of the country after news of his conversation with actress Aishwarya Rai, in which he allegedly revealed his links to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, spread.
Photo: V.V. Krishnan

Final show

As business dwindles in the wake of demonetisation, several iconic theatres in Delhi are on the brink of closure.

Cuban President Fidel Castro is marching with Pioneers, as he arrives to participate in the proclamation of the Code of Youth on August 05, 1978. Photo: The Hindu Archives

A youth icon

Vivan Sundaram recounts his “exceptional experience” at the World Youth Festival in Havana in 1978.

In this photograph taken on November 16, 2016, Indian villagers wait inside the bank to make the transactions in Basendua village in Basendua village in Bulandshahr, in northern Uttar Pradesh state.
Farmer Zakir Khan from a nondescript village feels he has been 'robbed' of his hard earned money by the government after its shock decision to ban high-value currency notes left millions of Indians cash strapped. / AFP PHOTO / CHANDAN KHANNA

‘Cash bombs’ in rural U.P.

Times are bleak in the season of sowing wheat, mustard and lentil in western Uttar Pradesh.

Hashimpura retold

Reading Vibhuti Narain Rai’s Hashimpura 22 May is a nerve-racking experience, but it is a book everyone should read to know how the state denied justi

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‘Serious concerns about entire operation’

Interview with Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia Director, Human Rights Watch.

Bhopal_advocate Parvez Aalam lawyer of SIMI Terrorists ----photo by A_M_Faruqui (02/11/2016)

‘They were killed in cold blood’

Interview with Parvez Alam, lawyer of the Bhopal accused.

‘Triple talaq has no sanction in Islamic law’

An interview with Prof. Tahir Mahmood, former NCM chief.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA, 08/08/2016: Activists of the Muslim Coordination Committee organised a mass signature campaign 'Quit Uniform Civil Code', in front of AG's office in Thiruvananthapuram on August 08, 2016.
Photo: S. Gopakumar

Code and caution

The impression that a uniform civil code will essentially be a Hindu code and not an amalgamation of the fundamentals of all faiths gains ground, fuel

‘Talaq issue politicised’

Interview with M. Salim Engineer, secretary-general of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind.

‘Adoor subjects are always contemporary’

Interview with Parthajit Baruah, the author of “Face-to-Face: The Cinema of Adoor Gopalakrishnan”.

NEW DELHI, 24/05/2007: Artist Yusuf Arakkal standing near his paintings on display in an exhibition at the Art Alive Gallery Panchsheel Park, in New Delhi on May 24, 2007.
Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar

Rebel at heart

Yusuf Arakkal’s (1945-2016) art was characterised by a desire to seek an understanding of the human condition.