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Jan 8, 2021

Nine decades of Hindi film music

Cinema in the subcontinent started off with a bang and a dash of royalty with Dadasaheb Phalke’s silent film, Raja Harishchandra, in 1913. Two decades later, the first “talkie,” or sound film, was released: Alam Ara (1931). Since then, movies from the subcontinent’s vast and varied film industries have married…

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Hindi

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Jan 1, 2021

Why Young Indians Lost Their Sexuality

(AND, HOW THE INDIAN MEDIA IS RECLAIMING IT) — Why do young desis never have the opportunity to date, romance, or find pleasure in sex without relying on it as a necessity for procreation? Is it a cultural phenomenon? Religious? Is non-sexuality so engrained in our heritage that we aren’t able to escape its clutches three thousand years later? …

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Hindi Film

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