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‘Freakier Friday’: How Nisha Ganatra Minted Box Office Gold

The director conquered an eight-round interview, brought Bollywood flair, and turned a $40-million budget into over $98 million in ticket sales.

Snigdha Sur

Snigdha Sur

Nisha Ganatra on the sets of 'Freakier Friday' (Disney)
Nisha Ganatra on the sets of 'Freakier Friday' (Disney)

‘Freakier Friday’: How Nisha Ganatra Minted Box Office Gold

The director conquered an eight-round interview, brought Bollywood flair, and turned a $40-million budget into over $98 million in ticket sales.

Snigdha Sur

Snigdha Sur

Naga pork pickle (Courtesy of The Rumbling Spoons)

Food

The Hidden World of South Asia’s Fish and Meat Pickles

Naga pork pickle (Courtesy of The Rumbling Spoons)

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The Hidden World of South Asia’s Fish and Meat Pickles

Bollywood love triangles (Snigdha Sur and Isha Banerjee for The Juggernaut)

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How Bollywood Perfected the Love Triangle

Bollywood love triangles (Snigdha Sur and Isha Banerjee for The Juggernaut)

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How Bollywood Perfected the Love Triangle

A woman sits along with her daughter suffering from dengue inside a children's ward in Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital in Dhaka, November 2024 (ABDUL GONI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Dengue: From Dacca Fever to Today’s Deadly Crisis

A woman sits along with her daughter suffering from dengue inside a children's ward in Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital in Dhaka, November 2024 (ABDUL GONI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Dengue: From Dacca Fever to Today’s Deadly Crisis

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Remembering Partition and Independence, 78 Years On

Fifteen in-depth stories about the event that forever changed the subcontinent.

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Shahbaz Khan shows pictures of his uncle Inayat Khan (left), who was also separated from the family at the time of Partition and died in India a few years ago, and his late father Sharif Khan (Murtaza Ali/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)
Shahbaz Khan shows pictures of his uncle Inayat Khan (left), who was also separated from the family at the time of Partition and died in India a few years ago, and his late father Sharif Khan (Murtaza Ali/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

Remembering Partition and Independence, 78 Years On

Fifteen in-depth stories about the event that forever changed the subcontinent.

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The Juggernaut

Members of Nepal's LGBT community take part in a gay pride parade in Kathmandu on August 27, 2018 (Gopen RAI / AFP via Getty Images)

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Hanumankind performs at the Mojave Tent at Coachella on April 12, 2025 in Indio, California (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for Coachella)

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Shakuntala Pines for King Dushyanta, With Priyamvada and Anusuya (Raja Ravi Varma)

Celebrating Women’s History Month: 2025

A Mughal lady (possibly Farzana Begum), c.1650 (Royal Collection Trust)

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Members of the Movement for Colonial Freedom and the Black Sash Movement march to South Africa House, 1956 (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Celebrating Black History Month: 2025

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