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‘A Suitable Boy’ – actors Namit Das, Mikhail Sen and Danesh Razvi talk about roles, working with Mira Nair and Vikram Seth…

HEAR what it was like playing the role of the suitors to heroine Lata Mehra in director Mira Nair’s TV…

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VJ Day – Troops who fought with Britain remembered, battles of Kohima and Imphal, talks about Indian contribution to the Second World War…

In some ways Victory against Japan (August 15) was more significant to Indians than VE Day (May 8)… THIS year…

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South Asian Heritage Month (SAHM) – Partition, Education, Feminism and Finale Party come into focus…

We are in the final straights of Britain’s first ever South Asian Heritage Month… IT’S THE CLOSING few days of…

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‘Churails’ director Asim Abbasi: Changing the narrative with this unique web series set in Karachi…

Digital offering is ambitious, challenging and director wants people to be exercised by its content… DIRECTOR Asim Abbasi has broken…

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Javaad Alipoor – award-winning playwright credited with bringing younger and more diverse audiences and technology into theatre, talks politics, elites, young people…

ACV caught up with Bradford-born talent who some feel is re-thinking theatre for a digital generation – and just as…

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Romesh Ranganathan’s comedy travelogue wins Bafta and diverse talents begin to make impact; Idris Elba wins Special Award…

It was an unusual Virgin Media TV British Academy Television Awards (Bafta) this year and memorable in more ways than…

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Bollywood asianculturevulture vibes: Stepping out, calling out, when it rains, it pours – Sushant Singh Rajput, Akshay Kumar, AR Rahman, Salman Khan…

As the late Sushant Singh Rajput dominates entertainment headlines, Bollywood crawls back to normalcy one step at a time, reports…

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‘A Suitable Boy’ – Mira Nair’s TV adaptation is captivating after a slow start… (review)

Regarded as a modern classic, making TV from it, will inevitably divide… DOWNTON done Brown. When acv talked to Mira…

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‘Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Shorts’ – chance to see iconic choreographer’s works adapted for online viewing and initiate new discussions…

A global star and in demand in other countries, you can see her works, ‘Material Men Redux’, ‘Staging Schiele’ and…

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Kailash Budhwar – daughter Mamta Kaash and colleagues remember first Indian head of BBC Hindi with fondness and admiration

One of the stalwart Indian-born journalists who covered seismic events was also an actor and poet… By Suman Bhuchar WARM…

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