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Mayank Shekhar

Mayank Shekhar runs the pop-culture website TheW14.com

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Books
The Original

The memoir of a filmmaker who shuttles between the frivolous and the fantastic

13 January 2016
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Books
Director’s Cut

This reassessment of Hrishikesh Mukherjee will inspire you to binge on his ever-relevant movies

14 October 2015
Courtchaluahe
Voices
Court Chalu Aahe

The best Indian film I saw in 2014 was a Marathi movie. No surprise there

07 January 2015
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Voices
Discovery of a Cult

Have you heard of someone called S Sukhdev? It’s about time you did

10 December 2014
Roughcut
Voices
Slacker Comedy at its Best

How Sulemani Keeda takes a wonderfully angular look at Bollywood

19 November 2014
SRK
Voices
Bollywood’s Last Monarch

Will there ever be another star like SRK, selling aspiration to middle-class India?

21 October 2014
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Voices
Bauji Goes Bonkers

Why Rajat Kapoor’s Ankhon Dekhi is the most underrated Hindi film of 2014

10 October 2014
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Voices
The Bare-Chested Brigade

How Bollywood has reversed the evolution of the Indian male

24 September 2014
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Voices
Bored of Censors

In film censorship, it’s the man or woman on top that matters

11 September 2014
Salmankhan
Voices
Hum Aapke Hain Corn

How HAHK, India’s greatest hit in 1994, causes ‘haha’ in 2014

20 August 2014

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

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