Scintillating, insightful conversations and incisive articles on business, entrepreneurship and geopolitical trends

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• Best of 2024
• year end special

Can a festival survive and thrive without corporate sponsorship? Yes — and here’s how Bangalore literature festival found freedom through community funding

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• Bangalore Literature Festival
• FF Life
• V Ravichandar

It’s a window to learning, making connections, and a form of personal riches

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• writing
• FF Life

My 10 recommendations of avant-garde films screened at the MAMI film festival, 2024

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• FF Life
• world cinema
• MAMI film festival 2024

Discovering the rugged landscapes of multi-ethnic Kazakhstan

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• Almaty
• Kazakhstan
• FF Life
• travelogue

10 best Durga Puja pandals of Kolkata 2024 | Art in the shadow of trauma: Durga Puja art is, more often than not, the art of social cause. Many of the pandals this year were muted, yet displayed a burst of breathtaking creativity

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• art installations
• FF Life
• Durga Puja pandals

Inside Kamata, Hiyoshiya, 7Eleven: In the land of the rising sun, there are many tell-tale signs of the unique culture across businesses, both big and small. Here’s what I discovered

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• Kamata
• Japan
• 7Eleven
• FF Life
• travelogue
• Hiyoshiya

Five days through Tashkent and Samarkand

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• Tashkent
• Samarkand
• FF Life
• travelogue

For a decade, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur took on the formidable challenge of almost single-handedly resurrecting India’s film heritage. The Film Heritage Foundation, his not-for-profit venture, now has an ambitious, new plan for the next decade

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• film restoration
• Manthan
• FF Life
• Film Heritage Foundation
• Shivendra Singh Dungarpur

What really goes into choosing the right developer and other important considerations

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• housing societies
• FF Life
• Redevelopment