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Natakbazi, but at what cost? Theatre aspirants in Mumbai dive into challenges

Studio Tamaasha’s upcoming workshop Pehel is a guide for newcomers on how to navigate the Mumbai theatre scene. But for those trying to stay, the real struggle begins after they enter

Machines are making fluent prose cheap. When everyone can produce a clean paragraph, clean paragraphs stop impressing anyone, and what stays scarce is what was doing the work all along, which is judgment, experience, and a claim specific enough to be wrong. PICS/ISTOCK

Whose thinking am I reading?

IT rules now say that AI content should carry a label showing it’s AI. But the question was never whether AI was in the room. It is how far up that ladder it was allowed to climb

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Olando and Volzia Fernandes joined Khyaal, an app for senior citizens, in 2022, and have since inspired as many as 15 of their neighbours and friends to be a part of the community. PIC/SATEJ SHINDE

Grey Matter: How age-tech startups are keeping India's elderly busy at home

From tambola to talent hunts, shopping, financial literacy sessions and dementia support, elder care’s newest ally might just be our trusty smartphones, as age-tech start-ups take off in India

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In Daayra, DCP Ajooni Kohli (Kareena Kapoor Khan) and DCP Raman Kumar (Prithviraj Sukumaran) are placed on opposing sides of a controversial case within the same law enforcement system. Pic/By Special Arrangement

The many truths of Meghna Gulzar

Director Meghna Gulzar returns with an investigative drama, Daayra, starring Kareena Kapoor Khan as a cop. She talks about justice, police brutality, budgets, and the box office

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