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Spoken word: The rise of performance poetry in India
The concept of spoken word, or performance poetry, might be a Western import. But like all things foreign, it is being adopted and adapted into Indianness
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The age of inspiration
There's no better time to make reimagination a recurring theme
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Kiran Nagarkar: I write because I want to be read
The written word can be powerful only if readers are paying attention, says award-winning novelist and Mumbai boy Kiran Nagarkar
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Reinventing the Indian horror film
With international collaborations and more filmmakers experimenting with the genre, the Indian horror movie is ready for an aesthetic and thematic overhaul
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A brief history of ghee in the US
America's taste for 'clarified butter' predates its love affair with it as a super-food by well over a century
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Various versions of English, nay, Inglish
No country, not even England, can appropriate English as its own. Not when the world has decided to adopt different versions of it, either through technological or cultural customisation. In India, it lives—no, thrives—as Inglish
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Graphic novels: Drawings of darkness
A single image often stands out and represents the tone of an entire graphic novel
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Movie musicals: Making a song and dance of It
Musicals are generic in Indian mainstream films while in Hollywood, they emerged as an antidote to the Great Depression
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When TV jingles turn hit singles
In the 1980s, TV themes were more jingles than songs, but damn, they were catchy
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Food without borders
From the Michelin-starred Vikas Khanna and an American taste for ghee to Kashmiri gouda and Mumbai macarons, you can find the taste of India across the world
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When heroes reinvent the greats
Upcoming artists often take an old classic and reimagine it as if they had written the song themselves