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Crooked Politics: The show about an illiterate woman forcibly handed the position of chief minister of Bihar, by her incarcerated husband, obviously inspired by Laloo Prasad Yadav and Rabari Devi,…

Psycho Out: A magpie is a noisy bird attracted to shiny objects but in police parlance, a prison informer who spies on his cellmates for the cops is given that…

Little Shine: The first season of Rohit Jugraj’s Chamak was a celebration of the music of Punjab, couched in a fictionalised version of the sensational and unsolved murder of legendary folk singer…

History Unwrapped: The words inspired by true events are written and crossed out after the title The Waking Of A Nation. It is as if Ram Madhvani, creator and director of…

Wholesome Romance: Even before their hit Hum Aapke Hain Koun (1994), altered somewhat the course of mainstream Hindi cinema, Rajshri Productions have been known for their family-friendly films, extolling traditional Indian values.…

Some More Chaos: It did not make much sense to truncate Tanaav Season 2 into two parts; at least the second comes before the first part has slipped out of memory. A…

History Recharged: The book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre was a bestseller in 1975—Freedom At Midnight told the story of the period just before India attained freedom from British Rule,…

All In The Mind: For years, till a certain awareness crept in, the word “mad” or “paagal” was the catchall for every kind of mental illness. Now thanks partly to…

Travails Of Parenting: Many a harried urban parent would consider the lives of the three friends in Raat Jawaan Hai a fairy tale. They are supposedly crushed under the burden of parenthood,…

Grisly Gaon: A doctor in a Maharashtra village says that there is a proper hospital in the nearby town, but the villagers would rather go to faith healers and shamans…