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Stealing bread: How Deewaar reimagined an episode from Les Miserables
Not surprisingly, rewatching Deewaar now is still an enriching experience
The urge to throw a stone
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Woodward and Bernstein had described Watergate as an attack on American democracy. It seems too close home now
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Frames per second: Why Amol Palekar needs Doctor Mama and Deven
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