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Ancient Questions, Modern Science: Exploring the Future of Healing

For thousands of years, healing traditions across South Asia have treated health as more than disease. Mind, body, environment and inner life were understood as connected, with meditation, breath, movement,…

By Carol Wick, Special to South Asian Herald · September 2, 2026

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Trailer of Daayra Shows Two Sides of the Police Coin

The trailer launch of Meghna Gulzar’s Daayra was held at the PVR Juhu multiplex with the lead pair, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran, in attendance along with producers Vineet Jain of…

By Rajiv Vijayakar · September 2, 2026

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Film Review: Toxic Is a Scary Tale for Grown-Ups

My two very loquacious and articulate movie buff friends, coincidentally named Yash Sutaria and Huma Advani, came out of the movie hall along with me after we had watched Toxic: A…

By Rajiv Vijayakar · August 28, 2026

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Remembering the Golden Voice of Mukesh: Part 1

On August 27, it is 50 years since Mukesh Chand Mathur left us. Mukesh sang a fraction of the number of songs of his illustrious contemporaries Mohammed Rafi and Kishore Kumar…

By Rajiv Vijayakar · August 26, 2026

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Film Review: 7 Dogs Is a Dud That Has Nothing to Do with Animals

From the 1970s to the 1990s, we had innumerable films named after deities or holy entities like Krishnavtar (Mithun Chakraborty’s non-starter), Gautam Govinda, Amar Shakti, Ram Avtar, Vishnu Devaa, Shiv Raam, Shanker Shambhuand…

By Rajiv Vijayakar · August 25, 2026

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Film Review: Sammarth (Marathi) is a Devotional Saga

When such movies connect, they often do so on a massive scale: Hindi cinema lovers of the 1970s will remember the resonance created by Jai Santoshi Maa (1975) and Shirdi Ke Sai Baba (1977).…

By Rajiv Vijayakar · August 21, 2026

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Preity Zinta on Batwara 1947

On the eve of the release of Aamir Khan’s production, Batwara 1947 we got a rapid-fire with Preity Zinta, who makes a comeback with the film after a gap of seven years.…

By Rajiv Vijayakar · August 12, 2026