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Keralam chief minister VD Satheesan Never Danced. Can India’s Deepfake Laws Catch Up With AI?
14+ hour, 19+ min ago (1586+ words) VD Satheesan had never performed the dance. His face appeared to disagree. In a video that hurtled across Instagram, the Keralam Chief Minister could be seen leading Kerala State Electricity Board employees through an energetic routine set to Ala Bolelo,…...
Young, Loud & Forever: Farewell to Cheetah Chrome, the Guitar That Gave Punk Its Bite
13+ hour, 24+ min ago (969+ words) Cheetah Chrome fell backwards. He kept playing. It was July 1975, and Rocket from the Tombs were opening for Television at Cleveland’s Piccadilly club. As the band launched into “Sonic Reducer”, the guitarist landed on his back and carried on. In…...
Mirzapur: The Movie Review - Return of the Familiar
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (174+ words) Open Magazine Kaleen bhaiyya (Pankaj Tripathi) is still giving lessons that virasat and siyasat (dynasty and politics) are two ways to acquire power. His son Munna bhaiyya (played in his usual unhinged way by Divyenndu) is still trying to expand…...
Ghamasaan Review: Into the Badlands
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (130+ words) Ghamasaan | Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia |Cast: Arshad Warsi, Pratik Gandhi | Hindi | Zee5 Few people understand the Central India badlands better than Tigmanshu Dhulia. They have been his old stomping grounds from the time he was casting director of Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen…...
Taking Flight: Life persists despite loss and grief in Tishani Doshi’s new poems
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (32+ words) Open Magazine 11 Sep 2026 - Vol 05 | Issue 37 Amit Shah leads the mission for a national demographic correction...
80s AI photo trend: From Piyush Goyal to Kiara Advani, who all joined the internet's biggest nostalgia craze?
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (366+ words) But who exactly has tried it? And why is everyone suddenly obsessed with looking like they stepped out of 1985? 04 Sep 2026 - Vol 05 | Issue 36 Devighat, Nepal, August 29, 2026 Perhaps the most surprising participants have been politicians. Union Minister Piyush Goyal shared an AI-generated…...
What happened on KBC that left Amitabh Bachchan heartbroken? His latest note has fans talking
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (612+ words) There is a moment on Kaun Banega Crorepati that viewers rarely see. It comes after the lights dim, after the questions are answered, and after the cameras move on. It is the moment when a contestant’s life story lingers longer…...
Julia Garner Still Wants to Play Madonna: Inside the Shelved Biopicâs Future and Hollywood Budget Battle
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (894+ words) That is hardly a production announcement. But after years of uncertainty, even Garner saying the words out loud is enough to reopen the question: could the Madonna biopic actually return? Garner’s comments come after a long period in which the…...
Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem’s Bunker gets 16-minute standing ovation at Venice Film Festival
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (397+ words) The lights came up, but nobody left. Instead, the applause kept going. By the time the audience at the Venice Film Festival finally stopped clapping for Bunker, 16 minutes had passed, making it the longest standing ovation of this year’s festival…...
Vikram, Betaal & One Sawaal: How Cars24 Put Doubt in the Driver’s Seat
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (1614+ words) The voice does not belong to an investor, board member or television anchor. It belongs to Betaal, hanging upside down and preparing to conduct what may be the strangest due-diligence exercise in India’s used-car business. Cars24 co-founder and CEO Vikram Chopra…...