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@annavetticad @FreeMedia_In Wow... Congratulations Anna. So happy for you and so well deserved ❤️🤗

I'm a bit overwhelmed. Entertainment is still not seen as a "serious" journalistic beat, so The Media Foundation @FreeMedia_In has, in effect, taken a stand by giving me the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Media Person of 2025. Thank you TMF, the jury & my editors♥️

The Epstein files, as discussed in the media, are salacious gossip. We fixate on details, sexploits, celebrity names, and spectacle, and we avoid the question that matters: what structures and institutions made this possible, protected it, normalized it, and benefited from it? That discussion remains thin, evasive, and endlessly deferred. suchitra.substack.com/p/what-the-eps…

SINNERS has 16 nominations and is the most nominated film in Academy Awards history. That's two more than TITANIC, ALL ABOUT EVE, and LA LA LAND.

The greatest living composer of the last 3 decades got attacked and abused (even by people within the industry) for stating an opinion in the politest, mildest manner, that too based on his lived-experience. And the very next day forced to issue an apology/clarification to calm the toxic mob down. If any further proof was needed to confirm his hints at the rising divisiveness... youtu.be/kbMinfmC3E0?si…

On the night of May 20, 2025, a little girl in a faded pink frock fell asleep on her mother’s lap at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. Her parents, simple people from Solapur, had come to Mumbai for her father’s treatment. They were exhausted. Just for a moment, the mother closed her eyes. When she opened them, her daughter was gone. Six months. Six months of walking from police station to police station. Six months of showing the same crumpled photograph to strangers on trains, in slums, in orphanages. Six months of the father not sleeping, the mother not eating, both of them growing hollow-eyed, whispering the same name into the dark: “Aarohi… Aarohi…” In Varanasi, a thousand kilometres away, a tiny girl with no memory of her real name was learning to call herself “Kashi.” She had been found crying near the railway tracks in June, barefoot and terrified. The orphanage gave her food, a bed, and a new name. She smiled easily, because children always do, but sometimes at night she clutched the edge of her blanket and asked for “Aai” — Marathi for mother — and no one understood. Back in Mumbai, the police refused to close the file. They printed posters with Aarohi’s face, stuck them on every platform from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus to Bhusawal to Varanasi Cantt. They ran newspaper ads, knocked on doors, begged journalists for help. Six months is a long time for hope to stay alive, but some officers carried her photograph in their shirt pockets like it was their own child. Then, on November 13, a local reporter in Varanasi saw the poster. Something clicked. He had seen a girl who spoke Marathi words in her sleep. He made a phone call. The next morning, a Mumbai Police inspector sat in front of a laptop in Varanasi and opened a video call. On the screen appeared a little girl in a pink frock — the same colour she was wearing the day she vanished. The mother, standing behind the officer in Mumbai, saw her daughter and collapsed without a sound. The father just kept repeating, “That’s my Aarohi… that’s my baby…” They flew her back on Children’s Day — November 14. When the plane landed, the entire Mumbai Crime Branch was waiting. They had bought her balloons and a new frock, sky blue this time. But the moment the little girl stepped out and saw the sea of khaki uniforms, she did something no one expected. She ran. Not away — toward them. Tiny legs pumping, arms outstretched, she threw herself at the nearest officer and laughed — the purest, clearest laugh that had been missing from the world for half a year. The officer, a tough man who had seen everything, felt his eyes burn. He lifted her high, and she wrapped her arms around his neck like he was family. Her parents were crying too hard to walk. So the policemen carried their daughter to them. The mother touched her face again and again, as if checking she was real. The father fell to his knees and pressed his forehead to his child’s tiny feet, sobbing words no one could understand except God. And the little girl? She just kept smiling, looking from her parents to the officers and back again, completely unaware that she had turned an entire police station into a sobbing, laughing, praying family. Six months of darkness ended in one hug. Aarohi is home now. The kidnapper is still out there, but that is tomorrow’s fight. Today, a mother is singing lullabies again. Today, a father is smiling in his sleep. And somewhere in Mumbai, there are policemen who will never forget the weight of a four-year-old girl in their arms — the weight of an entire life returned. Sometimes the uniform doesn’t just catch thieves. Sometimes it carries lost children all the way back to their mothers’ hearts.

So five years on, details of CBI closure report filed in March in Sushant Singh Rajput case are finally out. The qs I ask: who will give back Rhea Chakraborty and her family the five years they lost. Sadly NO ONE in the section of media which ran a witch-hunt against her will apologise, no? 🙏🙏

@sayantansunnyg Congratulations Sayantan. Looks very interesting! Going to get it soon.

This intimate little thing is officially out in the world today, show it love if you've got some to spare? #LonelyPeopleMeet

Just watched the teaser — and wow! It looks absolutely amazing. The world feels so alive and compelling, and I can already see your unique voice shining through @ReshuNath Huge congratulations to you and @Suparn! HAQ | Official Teaser | youtu.be/OGj-W7rf5As?si… via @YouTube

@gauravkrai Wah... So so proud of you Gaurav. Many many congratulations to you and everyone in the team!

‘बेस्ट फ़िल्म क्रिटिक’ के राष्ट्रीय पुरस्कार से सम्मानित फ़िल्म समीक्षक श्री उत्पल दत्ता की नई नवेली किताब 'डिकोडिंग फ़िल्म्स' में एक पूरा चैप्टर हमारी फ़िल्म 'सेलेस्तिना एंड लॉरेंस' के नाम है. बेहद शुक्रिया, उत्पल दा 🙏 किताब अमेज़न पर उपलब्ध है.

Lokah is fantastic. Go and watch this film.

@_AdilHussain This is amazing. Two legends in one frame ❤️

Just bumped into the Fabulous actor Mads Mikkelson at the Press Enclave at the Venice International Film Festival this afternoon... What a humble person... 😁

@AratiKadav I hope you do. Really had loved Cargo!

@film_waala It's a beautiful book. Keep it close!

Someone sent me a gift, but didn't leave a note.

Love the cover! And love the boy who is posing so eloquently holding flowers. Can't wait to read this book. Best wishes to you @manishgaekwad ♥️

@sayantansunnyg @BloomsburyIndia @kan_writersside @chiraghthakkar Looking forward to it. Many many congratulations Sayantan.

I wrote a book! Out in October 2025 from @BloomsburyIndia. An exciting, slightly surreal moment, made possible by @kan_writersside and @chiraghthakkar, arguably two of the warmest people you can find to champion your work.

Tease girls. Hain? what sort of language is this!

@yasser_aks @toonfactory @loveofcinemasf8 Lovely...looking forward to listening to this podcast.

A free spirited deep dive into the world of the legendary #GuruDutt with the insightful @toonfactory hosted by the brilliant chronicler of cinema, Himanshu, on his podcast @loveofcinemasf8 #guruduttcentenary #100yearsofgurudutt #guruduttanunfinishedstory

Thanks for sharing @CinemaRareIN ❤️🙏

Thank you @harkaraRozana for giving a shout out to our heartfelt documentary #tomorrowwillcome which we made in the honour of Tibetans and their passion to restore their culture. Special thanks to His Holiness @DalaiLama for showing us peace and compassion!

METRO...in Dinon is beautiful. I quite liked the feeling of love, desire, loss and confusion in a relationship. It's pretty engaging and heart touching!