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June 28, 2022 Chef Chintan Pandya Shares the Secret Sauce Behind His Award-Winning Food
Our guest on this episode of News and Views is Indian American chef Chintan Pandya of the blockbuster and critically-acclaimed restaurant in New York City, known as Dhamaka, who recently won the James Beard Foundation Award for the Best Chef, New York State.
Along with his business partner, Roni Mazumdar, Pandya is on his way to change how the world looks at Indian cuisine. We managed to grab hold of Pandya to talk to him about his restaurant, the philosophy behind its dishes, and of course, his desi roots!
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12 min
June 27, 2022 'Jugjugg Jeeyo' Review: A Flawed Film Held Together by Brilliant Performances
All’s well that ends well in a Dharma film. Jugjugg Jeeyo is no different . It’s the kind of glitter and shimmer one has come to expect, where chaos is played up for laughs and cantankerous fights are taken to a shrill high only to inevitably get drowned by dhol beats, naach gaana and Patiala pegs. A happy song plays with the end credits and we get two hours watching well-dressed, beautiful people in their big houses and luxe interiors. Ultimately, we walk out smiling.
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6 min
June 16, 2022 Big IPL Revenue for BCCI, But What Does This Mean for International Cricket
IPL's media rights for the next five years sold for a mammoth Rs 48,000 crore, but what does this mean for the BCCI's power to control Indian cricket? With so much money coming in and the board answerable to broadcasters, will international cricket take a back seat?
We chat with Amrit Mathur, who’s worked closely with the IPL and the BCCI in the past and we’ll talk about what the 48k crore coming in means for the BCCI. Tune in!
Host: Mendra Dorjey
Music: Big Bang Fuzz

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13 min
April 29, 2022 Review: 'Runway 34' is Engaging in Parts, But Fails to Have a Perfect Landing
Runway 34 is propelled by Ajay Devgn’s swag. There is no other way to put it . His slo-mo walk exudes equal doses of cockiness and confidence. Captain Vikrant Mathur has a photographic memory. He never misses a detail, can fly a plane literally with his eyes shut and simply has to press an unlit cigarette between his lips when faced with the prospect of impending death. “Na fuel hai, na visibility, na time” says a panic-stricken co-pilot. That’s essentially how tricky the landing is.

Voiceover: RJ Stutee

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6 min
April 22, 2022 Review: Shahid Kapoor’s ‘Jersey’ Comes Alive When It Moves Away From Action
Jersey marks the Hindi directorial debut of Gowtam Tinnanuri who remade his own 2019 Telugu hit by the same name. It tells the story of Arjun Talwar, a failed but talented cricketer, who wants to make a comeback to the Indian cricket team in his late 30s to fulfill his son’s wish.

It wouldn’t be incorrect to consider Jersey a sports film considering it doesn’t deviate much from the tropes one has come to associate with the genre.

Voiceover: RJ Stutee

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6 min
April 16, 2022 Review: Yash-Starrer 'KGF: Chapter 2' is Worth All the Hype
When K.G.F Chapter 1 released, it resonated with people across the country and carved a unique image for the Kannada film industry in Indian cinema. Therefore the hype around the sequel, K.G.F: Chapter 2, was immense.
The main theme of the film is to emphasise that it doesn't matter if you live for 100 years, you cannot and should not live a life of slavery. It's in line with Dr. BR Ambedkar’s quote “Life should be great, not long”.

Voiceover: Soundarya Athimutu

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4 min
April 08, 2022 Review: Abhishek Bachchan's 'Dasvi' Makes The Cardinal Mistake of Being Boring
A film can be anything it wants to be, but Dasvi makes the cardinal mistake of being... boring! Innumerable yawn-inducing, unfunny moments together conspire to make it a tiresome watch.

It’s all very well to end with a Nelson Mandela quote about the “power of education”, but good intentions alone can’t make a great film.

Host: RJ Stutee

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6 min
April 07, 2022 What Does The 6th IPCC Report on Climate Mitigation Mean for India and The World? Dr Navroz K Dubash Explains
The UN's big report on climate change is out. It is the IPCC's (WG-III) sixth report on climate mitigation. And if you have been confused about all the jargon, and have been wondering how this report is different from the previous ones and what the big takeaways from it are, then we have the answers.

The Quint spoke to Dr Navroz K Dubash, who is a professor at the Centre for Policy Research, where he conducts research and writes on climate change, energy, air pollution, water policy, and the politics of regulation in the developing world. Dubash is also one of the co-authors of this latest report and the coordinating lead author of Chapter 13.

Host: Sadhika Tiwari
Music: Big Bang Fuzz

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18 min
April 06, 2022 'RRR' Movie Review: SS Rajamouli Mounts Yet Another Riveting Visual Spectacle
(This is a review of the Hindi dubbed version of RRR)

A man after being bitten by a poisonous snake breaks a wall with his own fist! When he's on death row and in solitary confinement he does push ups! Someone else has his legs broken but takes ferocious leaps in the air to kill his target! SS Rajamouli’s 3-hour-long, hypnotic spectacle RRR is made up of many such moments that nudge us to suspend our disbelief. “Load, aim and shoot! “ - that’s what Rajamouli’s screenplay and K V Vijayendra Prasad’s story is all about unencumbered as it is by the need to be historically accurate or even logical for that matter. The only way to have fun then is to unquestioningly surrender yourself to this ambitious setup where the directors’s mastery over his craft is never in doubt.

VO: RJ Stutee

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5 min
March 16, 2022 Understanding India's Suicide Crisis and The Interventions That Can Help
India's suicide crisis is often discussed in bursts of news coverage, often within boxes of celebrity suicide, student suicide or farmer suicides. The crisis though, especially in India, sits outside these boxes and is very much a consequence of systemic socio-economic-political failure, and not one that can be viewed only from the lens of mental illness.

A new book Life Interrupted - Understanding India's Suicide Crisis is questioning the media narrative and serves as an excellent resource for those who wish to understand what's driving India's suicide crisis.

In this special episode The Quint's Health Editor Vaishali Sood is in conversation with the authors of this book — Amrita Tripathi, a former journalist, author, and founder of The Health Collective - a site dedicated to increasing mental health awareness in India; Dr Soumitra Pathare, Director of Centre for Mental health Law and Policy at the Indian Law Society, Pune; and Dr Abhijit Nadkarni, a psychiatrist, and an associate professor of Global Mental Health at the London school of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.

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38 min

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