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Shaunak Sen on taking termite to TIFF: ‘After Oscar nomination, it’s easier to get meetings’
At Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2026, he is presenting Termite, produced and presented by Janato Cinema, an initiative by Azim Premji Foundation, as highlighted by Upala KBR in Mid-day.
The OECD’s school report obfuscates a global education emergency instead of raising an alarm — why?
We are failing an entire generation even as the clock runs out on the scope for real action, writes Anurag Behar in Mint.
Unready urban India
We need a national urbanisation policy with a new definition of “urban” considering the city’s ecology, write Arvind Lakshmisha and Harini Nagendra, in Frontline.
Fading Kuhls and Gharats: The human cost of hydropower on Himachal Pradesh’s altered rivers
Explore how small-scale hydropower projects are changing the cultural and ecological landscape.
Photo essay: Rachit Tiwari in India Water Portal
Gold rings or rights? The patriarchal underpinnings of Tamil Nadu’s Thaimaman scheme
The scheme comes from the underlying understanding of women as objects of state benevolence, valued for the roles of wife and mother, rather than as citizens with rights, writes Dipa Sinha in The News Minute.
What is Janato Cinema? How Azim Premji Foundation’s New Initiative Is Backing Socially-Engaged Films
As the Azim Premji Foundation enters film production with Janato Cinema, filmmakers see an opportunity to fill a long-standing gap in funding for independent, socially engaged work, writes Zico Ghosh, in The Hollywood Reporter.
Why fewer state-run schools does not signal neglect of education: It’s learning that matters
Consolidation is not neglect of the public system but an improvement – and only if you are not seeing the reality on the ground you think of it otherwise, writes Anurag Behar in Mint.